limonfiesta

Lemmy simply lacks a wide range smaller niche communities that exist on Reddit i.e. odd hobbies, smaller sports niches, etc.

I’d rather that I didn’t have to keep using Reddit for those smaller communities, but I have replaced 80% of my Reddit usage, so I’m not complaining.

When this is brought up, the typical responses is the well-meaning suggestion to “start it yourself” or “be the first”, except that hasn’t been fruitful in my experience.

The communities that I still use Reddit for, are already present on Lemmy and have been open for years, but they lack the amount of user necessary to make them worthwhile.

If anyone bothered to read the article, it’s not nearly as stupid as it sounds. That’s not to say it’s a good idea, just that not nearly as dumb as people are making it out to be.

It’s designed specifically to handle multiple callers who are calling about existing/known incidents, as a tool to relieve human operators, and simply gather additional details, or provide information to the callers.

So while I can’t say that I’m in favor of it, the actual scope of deployment is much different than what the headline would have you believe.