Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan
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Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.

original article headline: “Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X”

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/333398

Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they’ll no longer be able to receive them on X.

  • RxBrad@lemmings.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Does Mastodon have realtime push notifications? Seems like that would be vital for something like this.

    I thought most of the apps have scheduled polling.

    • Zoldyck
      5·
      1 year ago

      You can be notified per account if you want, just like on Twitter.

      • RxBrad@lemmings.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You can. But if your app only checks every 5 minutes, it kind of defeats the purpose.

        I don’t know, for sure, how Mastodon notifications work. But it seems like Tooot (not totally sure if it was this app or a different one) tried to make me jump through some special hoops to do the best approximation it could of true push notifications.