I know that feeling lol.

I have a love/hate relationship with my Google speaker. Some examples that have happened:

“Hey google, set the temperature to 21 degrees”

google: “Sure. Setting the heater to 71 degrees!”

And

me: hey google, start a timer for ten minutes

google: okay, starting a 10 minute timer

me: perfect

google: okay, consider it cancelled

me: …

Might I point out the reason why people might react so offended by it? You have your opinions. And that is fine. Nobody can tell you your opinions are invalid. But if you look back to your message, your opinions are stated as hard facts:

They’re often very loud

they demand your attention constantly

they’re always in your space

Dogs are just exhausting.

I understand what you mean with this. But it kind of reads similar to someone saying something like “All Americans are dumb”. And then when everyone gets offended by it they be like “It’s just my opinion, why is everyone angry at me?”. And of course people get angry, You get all the responses from people who have an American friend, and THAT person isn’t dumb! So of course your facts are invalid!

Anyway. Not a dig at you in any way. Thought I’d just let you know how it reads.

That only works if they’re actually discoverable when you search for them, so you can pick the correct one. On reddit if you search for a specific thing, you get a list of all possible subreddits in one go. On lemmy… it really depends on the instance you’re on, and if anyone else on your instance has discovered the other communities yet. You never know if the search results are complete. Even https://browse.feddit.de is not always showing all the communities I noticed.

And even now I have to keep rechecking communities/interests I have already subscribed too because new duplicates get made all the time with new instances showing up.