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Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.

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[–] 65 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I never understood why official goverment body’s do that anyway. Maintaining your own infra means you have full control. This should be mandatory for any government body. Not beeing dependant on big tech who make up silly rules as they please.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Thing is, it made sense until Twitter got sold to a capricious billionaire. Twitter was very stable and their rules didn’t change much before then. The APIs made them an easy way to send out a lot of info in a popular, easily to access way. It worked well as a system for both government agencies and citizens, until Elon decided to stick his dick in it.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But thats exactly the problem :) some ego steps in and boom! As a foreign government you simply cant trust that a privatly owned company has your best interest at heart, and they shouldn’t.

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

    Japanese local governments, let alone the central one, still have almost zero knowledge about the value of maintaining infrastructure which they should have full control. Virtually even discourses about it do not exist yet. Huge difference between the European governments.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Right? They’re still using floppy disks and fax machines.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Fax machines are one of the main ways of communications there. I guess floppy disks are indeed partly used at municipal offices yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Japanese local governments, let alone the central one, still have almost zero knowledge about the value of maintaining infrastructure which they should have full control. Virtually even discourses about it do not exist yet. Huge difference from the European governments.

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