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

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/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.

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    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.