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Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan (unseen-japan.com)

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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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[-] jungekatz@lemm.ee 123 points 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.

musky boi making activityPub famous ?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago

This is the part I would highlight:

By 9 PM on Monday night, NERV users were demanding answers to the questions raised by Gehirn’s decision. NERV responded to two questions.

Why not use other social media platforms?

“We are moving forward under the premise that our operations should move from platforms managed by other companies to those within our control. Our app of course works on Apple and Google but these are different in terms of API constraints. On the other hand, distribution on ActivityPub is where we can manage our content completely independently. For this reason, in response to requests to move our operations onto different platforms will eventually only result in the same outcome as this time and therefore will not be considered. As NERV posts are still accessible via social media linked with ActivityPub, we plan to continue sharing there.”

Bonbon-man is really doing a great job enticing people to stay on his ~~shitform~~ I mean platform

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