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.

article headline: Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/333398

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

  • anthoniix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I feel like the only thing that can dethrone twitter now is mastodon, given how it’s setup. I don’t really think bluesky will work anymore.

  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR: X’s rate increases are costing the service about ¥6 million per month. As that is very expensive, they would rather spend their money developing their own platform and using a free social media platform to disseminate information.

    ”…move our operations onto different platforms will eventually only result in the same outcome as this time and therefore will not be considered.”

  • Mars2k21@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s a pretty huge move right there, hopefully this is the first of many migrations of apps to Activity Pub software (besides Threads).

    Also…the name NERV kind of threw me off for a second. Tell the anime crowd on Twitter that NERV moved to Mastodon full time and we’ll probably get an extra 2 million people in the Fediverse.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I thought it was all a prank because of all the NGE terminology (Gehirn too). It says in the article the founder is a fan, which makes sense. I’d want to pretend I’m sending off anglesangels too if I were running an anti earthquake product.