Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan
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Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X.
This is the part I would highlight:
Bonbon-man is really doing a great job enticing people to stay on his
shitformI mean platformNERV Mastodon: https://unnerv.jp/@UN_NERV
Thats a plus ! Thats prolly coz dev api costs ?
They’ve been on Mastodon for a while - since 2017. That likely made it easier for them to decide to switch over completely.
they are on mastadon! nice
I refuse to recognize X as anything else then either a letter or in reference to an unknown value.
There is also a great Japanese metal band by that name as well as a old school punk band.
.... ok, metal and punk are accepted as well.
But what about X11?
I love that wayland.social exists. It's a Mastodon instance.
It’s also the name of a certain mindreading academic.
This is bigger news than some folks may realise. Twitter is MASSIVE in Japan, their market penetration is huge there. Losing grip on Japan would be a major blow to the company.
Also probably a blow to Elon's dream of becoming a cyberpunk corporate overlord, considering the genre's bubble-inspired imagery.
It’s the second largest market after the US, but Elon cares so little about it that half the new things since they rebranded haven’t even been translated - my Twitter is in Japanese, and the new “repost” is in English, as are all the descriptions in settings.
It’s going to take a while, but they’re going to lose a lot of the Jp market at this rate.
Huh. I don't see any negatives with any of those words.
Good, social networks use should be discouraged and not used by governments
Yeah, but NERV isn’t run by the government. It’s a service run by a private company.
that doesnt change the fact that elon musk is a fucking idiot
Mastodon & Lemmy are both social networks. They're just not centrally owned & operated.
The app itself has alerts so I'm surprised people are using Twitter to get it's alerts. I don't use Twitter, but I didn't know that was a thing. NERV is the fastest-alerting app I've found on Android for quakes here. Good on them, though, for better use of their money and getting off that hellhole.
As others have mentioned, Twitter is huge in Japan. Almost no small businesses have websites; they market and show availability etc. through Insta, FB, and twitter
Is it faster than Android's built-in earthquake alerts?
50-50 from my experience, but I'd say sample size is too small to say.
Twitter/X is the past. ActivityPub/ mastodon are the future. Best to let Musk eat his losses.
Nerv and Gehirn? Nice.
It’s a growing number of companies doing that. Hopefully it’s the beginning of the end.
Dude every phone in Japan makes a horrible alert siren "Woop Woop" sound when there is an earthquake. Anyone who was accessing Twitter definitely 100% already knows there is an earthquake coming.
Turns out Musk doesn't just waste other people money by blowing up rockets at SpaceX, he does it with his shitty API as well.