Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan

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Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan
unseen-japan.com

Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.

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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.

  • musky boi making activityPub famous ?

This is the part I would highlight:

By 9 PM on Monday night, NERV users were demanding answers to the questions raised by Gehirn’s decision. NERV responded to two questions.

Why not use other social media platforms?

“We are moving forward under the premise that our operations should move from platforms managed by other companies to those within our control. Our app of course works on Apple and Google but these are different in terms of API constraints. On the other hand, distribution on ActivityPub is where we can manage our content completely independently. For this reason, in response to requests to move our operations onto different platforms will eventually only result in the same outcome as this time and therefore will not be considered. As NERV posts are still accessible via social media linked with ActivityPub, we plan to continue sharing there.”

Bonbon-man is really doing a great job enticing people to stay on his shitform I mean platform

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.

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.

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.

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?

Twitter/X is the past. ActivityPub/ mastodon are the future. Best to let Musk eat his losses.

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.

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.

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.