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X cut them off during the Earthquake because they didn't pay for a higher tier plan[1], but they also had a Mastadon account going that was unaffected. If you
by beloch 3y ago
X cut them off during the Earthquake because they didn't pay for a higher tier plan[1], but they also had a Mastadon account going that was unaffected.
If you rely on this service, you should probably either have the app or use mastodon. X doesn't seem to be a reliable option anymore. Twitter might have temporarily lifted restrictions when such info could save lives, but X wants its $$$ first.
[1]https://www.dexerto.com/tech/japanese-disaster-prevention-x-account-cant-post-anymore-after-hitting-api-limit-2451266/ https://www.dexerto.com/tech/japanese-disaster-prevention-x-...
- phantomathkg 3y agoJapan has a very high penetration of X usage, but not Mastodon, so it is natural for them to have X instead of Mastodon.
- bowsamic 3y agoWe have a similar situation for public transport here in Hamburg. The status updates for outages on the S Bahn network are only available on X, if you don’t have an account there there’s no where else to see it
- anonporridge 3y agoAdditionally, Mastodon working well at the current low scale doesn't tell us much. We don't actually know how reliable it will be if it ever reaches X scale.
- beloch 3y agoX has failed in a way that endangered lives, and in way that will likely persist. Mastodon has yet to be tested. It seems logical to start testing Mastodon's limits in earnest.
- GaggiX 3y agoMastodon has massive Japanese communities on it, Pawoo (social that was owned by Pixiv, was the largest Mastodon instance before Musk took over Twitter, now it's second), mstdn.jp (used to be second, now third), now there's also Misskey, which is not a Mastodon instance, but it's perfectly compatible with it. Mastodon was battle-tested by the Japanese, almost no one used it seriously before them.
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