Comment on 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

moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t help if people don’t use it.
  That said, they should definitely stop using the thing formerly known as Twitter.
  Use news outlets and SMS alerts, those are “correct” ways of handling such situations, social media is not.

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  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mastodon can be used as a feed and integrated on websites easily. People can follow the latest news and reports about the disaster. They don’t need to use mastodon or follow them. People need to know this is the right place to go to for a live ticker about a dessaster with an easy URL like disaster.gov.jp.

    On top of this, they are independent with their own instance and don’t rely on social media companies servers.

    TV and radio are definitely not the right place anymore. Too many people live without them. SMS can be a thing. We

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mastodon can be used as a feed and integrated on websites easily.

      OK that makes a lot of sense. ;)

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  • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see no reason not to include social media in the mix.

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• Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which they already have

  unnerv.jp/@UN_NERV

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  • tanakian@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    does mastodon have something like high priority/importance notifiication? i can imagine how such sms may come, but in order to get that notification via twitter or mastodon, what should you do? run the apps in background and check all notifs, like someone faved your food foto, and then you are like, okay, this wasn’t it.

    i just don’t know how this works and really curious.

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    • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be honest, social media including Mastodon is pretty awful for right-on-the-second emergency notifications but good for any extended information that wouldn’t fit in those. Japan does have things in place for before then, similarly to America, but depending on the system you could link to that link just fine.

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  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Great!

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• Ignifazius@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Germany has a mastodon instance and is using it.

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