https://unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-twitter-leaving/
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
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.
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
They’ve been on Mastodon for a while - since 2017. That likely made it easier for them to decide to switch over completely.
The comapny is called gehirn, which in the series in NERVs predecessor. They are full on aware of this.
I refuse to recognize X as anything else then either a letter or in reference to an unknown value.
This is bigger news than some folks may realise. Twitter is MASSIVE in Japan, their market penetration is huge there. Losing grip on Japan would be a major blow to the company.
Also probably a blow to Elon's dream of becoming a cyberpunk corporate overlord, considering the genre's bubble-inspired imagery.
It’s the second largest market after the US, but Elon cares so little about it that half the new things since they rebranded haven’t even been translated - my Twitter is in Japanese, and the new “repost” is in English, as are all the descriptions in settings.
It’s going to take a while, but they’re going to lose a lot of the Jp market at this rate.
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
Twitter/X is the past. ActivityPub/ mastodon are the future. Best to let Musk eat his losses.
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.
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.