original 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.

  • Jeena
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    261 year 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.

    • OtterOP
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      101 year 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
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      31 year 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