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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by stevage on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:29PM (#37069796)
C'mon. I'm totally into tech etc and even I don't use any RSS based tools. Warning systems need to hook into the platforms people are already using. People aren't going to go out of their way to sign up to an alert that will probably never happen.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:28PM (#37070260)
I don't think there's any country where most people use Twitter at all, much less use it often enough that they would incidentally see an emergency alert from their local government.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by stevage on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:52AM (#37072103)
That's an argument against using it as the sole means of communication, which no one has proposed.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by charlieyu1 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:07AM (#37074093)
Twitter is big in Japan. Same for Facebook in some countries.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by gdulli on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:31PM (#37070769)
The point is that in an alternate reality, in the absence of terrible experiences like Twitter and Reddit controlling what we see with algorithms, RSS tools we have greater personal control of are what we could be/should be using instead.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by stevage on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:53AM (#37072112)
Assuming you trust whoever is providing the feed to not filter it, and to maintain it forever.
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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by midoridensha on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:12AM (#37071861)
C'mon. I'm totally into tech etc. and even I never use Twitter (er, "X") at all, and never have.

Who actually uses Twitter? No one I know.

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Re:Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnin... by mejutoco on Thursday August 10, 2023 @11:30AM (#37077462)
I receive warnings by SMS. It seems to work fine if there is some storm danger.

During covid Taiwan IIRC from an interview with Audrey Tang also used SMS with great results.

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