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Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake::undefined

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[–] 133 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How about avoiding commercial platforms when it comes to vitally important official communication?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They do, all phones get an emergency alert and tvs display a message. Twitter was another vector to spread the word out.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well. Then they should tell those people who still use X that this is an unreliable source. For anything else it already is, anyway.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Problem is that no noncommercial platform would ever have the same coverage as a commercial one like X. People simply would not see the necessity to install it until it's too late.

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  • [+] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It doesn't have to be an entire service. It could be a Mastodon / Lemmy node under their own control, but they should still mirror the information to other social media platforms, perhaps with a link underneath pointing to their own server as source of truth.

    This is quite frankly what all NGOs, news orgs and major companies should do - federate so they can moderate their own message. Seems bizarre to me that the BBC, or UN, or NATO or whatever wouldn't want to control their messaging this way. But realistically they do need to mirror the message out to other services.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Could always go the route of an amber alert-like system being primary and then pipe the same msg to their secondary commercial platforms (like X). I'm not privy on the details but it sounds irresponsible to rely on X primarily/solely.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I bet they spam that message through every medium they can - TV, radio, loudspeakers, phone alert, text, traffic signs, all the social media platforms.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Imagine if the only alert of the impending death wave was some federated lemmy server which was having a few network problems that day.

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