Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers

williwmse , 5 months ago

''How to save Twitter video (Convert Twitter to mp4)?

yoz , 10 months ago

Does anyone has a link to it?

lenathaw , 10 months ago

nerv.app

unnerv.jp/

It is an unofficial app, albeit a very popular one

wisdomchicken , 10 months ago

488k is the number of posts, they have 19k followers. Pretty great news still tho

otter OP , 10 months ago

Whoops

Someone else said it and I didn’t translate to check

gingerwolfie , 10 months ago

Amazing. We need more service accounts to move!

JubilantJaguar , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

This looks like a glimpse of how Mastodon (specifically: ActivityPub protocol) can really detrone Twitter. The world is full of governments and agencies and other Very Serious Organizations. They must hate having to depend on a single private company to get their message out. They must be itching for an alternative that gives them the kind of control that they have with phone numbers and email addresses and websites. Surely this is Mastodon’s golden opportunity.

insertfloppydiskhere , 10 months ago

Absolutely! I’ve been contacting the national directorates and Very Serious Organizations in my country asking if they have strategies in place for effectively communicate with the public, in light of Twitter requiring an account to read its content (this happened some weeks ago). I always link to other public bodies or Very Serious Organizations that have done it. Same goes for political parties.

Make them understand that there is a need for reliable communication, and show them that others are doing it as well.

We need to remember that Mastodon (and Lemmy for that Cass) still are pretty niche things. Every example of Very Serious Organizations that joins lowers the barrier of entry for the next Very Serious Organization.

JubilantJaguar , 10 months ago

Exactly. And well done for being a busybody in a good cause! The world needs more people like you.

PersnickityPenguin , 10 months ago

TL;DR: X’s rate increases are costing the service about ¥6 million per month. As that is very expensive, they would rather spend their money developing their own platform and using a free social media platform to disseminate information.

”…move our operations onto different platforms will eventually only result in the same outcome as this time and therefore will not be considered.”

anthoniix , 10 months ago

I feel like the only thing that can dethrone twitter now is mastodon, given how it’s setup. I don’t really think bluesky will work anymore.

Mars2k21 , 10 months ago

That's a pretty huge move right there, hopefully this is the first of many migrations of apps to Activity Pub software (besides Threads).

Also...the name NERV kind of threw me off for a second. Tell the anime crowd on Twitter that NERV moved to Mastodon full time and we'll probably get an extra 2 million people in the Fediverse.

yumpsuit , 10 months ago

GET IN THE DAMN FEDIVERSE, SHINJI

AndreyAsimow , 10 months ago

Good choice Japan!

waffle , 10 months ago

It will identify the first Kaiju attack. Picked up due to seismic activity. Released from the Antarctic - Article on new species found in Antarctic

NeonWoofGenesis , 10 months ago

Is the app seriously called NERV? 🤣

PineapplePartisan , 10 months ago

And the logo is a scorpion for some reason?

ConstipatedWatson , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I always thought the only way to deal with earthquakes was to use gigantic mecha that only have 5 mins of unplugged charge!

Shin Seiki edit: fixed grammar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7be6e913-51eb-4a97-aa15-eaf0e785c752.png

maegul , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I thought it was all a prank because of all the NGE terminology (Gehirn too). It says in the article the founder is a fan, which makes sense. I’d want to pretend I’m sending off anglesangels too if I were running an anti earthquake product.

ConstipatedWatson , 10 months ago

Aaargh, you’re totally right. It goes to show I should have read TFA! Sorry and thanks for the remark!

SmoochPooch , 10 months ago

Probably a good organization for detecting impacts too.

medborgare , 10 months ago

Is “switches” really correct? They’ve been on Mastodon since 2017.

remotelove , 10 months ago

Once the service stops using Twitter, it could be considered a full “switch” I suppose.

otter OP , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I rewrote the title a few times, couldn’t settle on anything. Updated it again now (criticism was valid, I originally posted with “Japan Earthquake Alert App switches from Twitter to Mastodon, already has 488k followers”)

Probably should have just included the relevant part of the article

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.

sj_zero , 10 months ago

The future I wish to see!

glibg10b , 10 months ago

Consider using the past tense

sabreW4K3 , 10 months ago

Much better title!

otter OP , 10 months ago

I felt weird about changing the original title, but I really didn’t like the one the article had

sabreW4K3 , 10 months ago

Twitter changing its name to ex is unnecessarily confusing.

Gsus4 , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

さよなら モテルフケル 🦭