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.
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.
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.
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
I assume it’s mostly misskey.
They actually called it NERV the dorks
I’m a massive Eva fan and never knew this, love it haha
Cmon it’s cool as hell
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.
You can be notified per account if you want, just like on Twitter.
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.
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It’s the new name for Twitter.
The final creation of Dr. Light and the main character of the Mega Man X games
Amazing games by the way. The original SNES ones hold up very well.
I prefer the other title
Good news!
Don’t worry the more people leave x the better fediverse will be
