Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
NERV Mastodon: unnerv.jp/@UN_NERV
Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan
Submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-twitter-leaving/
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DataBlade@lemm.ee 1 year ago
jungekatz@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thats a plus ! Thats prolly coz dev api costs ?
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 year ago
They’ve been on Mastodon for a while - since 2017. That likely made it easier for them to decide to switch over completely.
DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
NERV, huh. Are we sure they are just monitoring earthquakes? Either way, if they try to establish an Antarctic base, slap their hands and say “no”
lividhen@kbin.social 1 year ago
I thought this post was satirical at first before I realized they were a real company 😅
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
EVA-01
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I didn’t realise NERV was a real thing until this post
jeremias@social.jears.at 1 year ago
The comapny is called gehirn, which in the series in NERVs predecessor. They are full on aware of this.
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
they are on mastadon! nice
Pofski@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I refuse to recognize X as anything else then either a letter or in reference to an unknown value.
themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
But what about X11?
zurohki@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I love that wayland.social exists. It’s a Mastodon instance.
kittyjynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is also a great Japanese metal band by that name as well as a old school punk band.
Pofski@lemmy.world 1 year ago
… ok, metal and punk are accepted as well.
anlumo@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s also the name of a certain mindreading academic.
LemonDifficult@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Yeah same tbh
tiredofsametab@kbin.social 1 year ago
The app itself has alerts so I'm surprised people are using Twitter to get it's alerts. I don't use Twitter, but I didn't know that was a thing. NERV is the fastest-alerting app I've found on Android for quakes here. Good on them, though, for better use of their money and getting off that hellhole.
As others have mentioned, Twitter is huge in Japan. Almost no small businesses have websites; they market and show availability etc. through Insta, FB, and twitter
d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it faster than Android’s built-in earthquake alerts?
tiredofsametab@kbin.social 1 year ago
50-50 from my experience, but I'd say sample size is too small to say.
Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Twitter/X is the past. ActivityPub/ mastodon are the future. Best to let Musk eat his losses.
cccc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nerv and Gehirn? Nice.
Venicon@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It’s a growing number of companies doing that. Hopefully it’s the beginning of the end.
figaro@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Dude every phone in Japan makes a horrible alert siren “Woop Woop” sound when there is an earthquake. Anyone who was accessing Twitter definitely 100% already knows there is an earthquake coming.
HellAwaits@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X.
Turns out Musk doesn’t just waste other people money by blowing up rockets at SpaceX, he does it with his shitty API as well.
jungekatz@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X.