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.

original article headline: “Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X”

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/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.

  • Jeena
    26•2 years ago

    Oh wow so they had 1.5 milion subscribers on Twitter but they have half a milion on Mastodon https://unnerv.jp/@UN_NERV I wasn’t aware that Mastodon is that popular in Japan.

    • OtterOPEnglish
      10•2 years ago

      I wonder how much of that is recent / related to this service, and how much of it is from before. It’s great to see different countries getting going with fediverse stuff.

      I always thought it was weird when governments and institutions had to tiptoe around these tech giants. It makes so much more sense for them to host their own thing on their own infrastructure.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
      3•2 years ago

      half a milion on Mastodon

      Nice to hear! That will probably climb further too, as more of the population signs up to get their earthquake alerts there

  • RxBradEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    Does Mastodon have realtime push notifications? Seems like that would be vital for something like this.

    I thought most of the apps have scheduled polling.

      • RxBradEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        You can. But if your app only checks every 5 minutes, it kind of defeats the purpose.

        I don’t know, for sure, how Mastodon notifications work. But it seems like Tooot (not totally sure if it was this app or a different one) tried to make me jump through some special hoops to do the best approximation it could of true push notifications.

    • ScottEnglish
      11•2 years ago

      It’s the new name for Twitter.

    • phi1997
      7•2 years ago

      The final creation of Dr. Light and the main character of the Mega Man X games

      • Dandroid
        1•2 years ago

        Amazing games by the way. The original SNES ones hold up very well.