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Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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[–] hansl 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is Mastodon even viable for time sensitive information? You need to wait for your instance to propagate the post from their instance which can take time.

[–] AbidanYre 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As opposed to waiting until next month for your API call limit to reset?

[–] hansl 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’d suggest they join a system that has users, proper SLA and an open frontpage.

As much as you might like Mastodon for being open, there are no SLA between instances. Bluesky or Threads likely do.

Not saying they shouldn’t start their own Mastodon, but not for emergency and time sensitive things. Or just for people who can’t access those other services. More options also mean more reach.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

They made their own: https://unnerv.jp/@UN_NERV

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is Twitter/X viable for that? They can decide, and have, to randomly put information behind login walls.

[–] hansl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They technically still have an SLA, but it’s unclear how much they respect it. And if X isn’t viable there are other platforms that are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SLA? If that means something like "service level agreement" (I don't know, you didn't specify, I'm guessing) then I can still find examples where it falls well below what I would expect from a public service such that if there was an agreement in place that I would definitely be opposed to it as a tax payer.

And if X isn’t viable there are other platforms that are.

I mean yes obviously, there are much more viable platforms like Mastodon, or even a self-hosted website.

[–] hansl -1 points 10 months ago

And again, which was the point of my original comment, Mastodon may not do great when you need to propagate the post to other platforms. Unless you know something I don’t, Mastodon is horrible for time sensitive information, since it can take hours to get to your instance.