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Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.

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[–] Kbobabob 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, all you have to do is convince the public to pay for it. Easy, peasy....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given the amount of tax money thats beeing wasted already, its only a small drop in the ocean.

[–] meldroc 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed - any competent municipal IT dept. can set up an instance without breaking a sweat - set up a VM, install your OS of choice, install Lemmy & its stack, set up the DB, register the domain, find some interns to moderate & do scut work. Not completely trivial, but within modest means.