A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    No, they haven’t. NERV is running its own Mastodon server, but that’s not run by any government agency and is a private company.

    The different prefectures are still weighing options.

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      1 year ago

      If I were in charge of disaster warnings, a distributed, redundant system like the Fediverse would seem to be the perfect option for a warning system.

      But what do I know…

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      1 year ago

      Ah I see. I hope they consider Mastodon or something similar.

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      NERV? Like the agency from Evangelion? I’m not too familiar with any other abbreviation than that haha.

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      Yeah, I wish the government would do something. Preferably something that exists today, but I trust they’d want to make their own shitty app. At least then it’d be in one place, I suppose. Emergency alerts on phones are a thing for many people, but not everything is that level of emergency.