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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::undefined

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      202·
      11 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, public radio and TV and SMS alerts, those are “correct” ways of handling such situations, social media is not.

      • feannag@lemmy.mlEnglish
        141·
        11 months ago

        Shouldn’t they use every means in their disposal? I know for myself I don’t watch OTA or cable news, and I don’t listen to public radio. Sure, SMS alerts are great, but the more widespread the messaging, the better.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Well the obvious answer would probably be yes, but I’m not so sure. We shouldn’t make either institutions or people expect they can use and find this sort of information on social media, as social media is inherently unreliable for many reasons.

      • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        11 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

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

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

          OK that makes a lot of sense. ;)

      • tanakian@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        11 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.

        • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
          1·
          11 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.

    • IgnifaziusEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

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