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Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers (unseen-japan.com)
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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.

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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 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.

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