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    10 months ago

    Doesn’t help if people don’t use it.
    That said, they should definitely stop using the thing formerly known as Twitter.
    Use news outlets, public radio and TV and SMS alerts, those are “correct” ways of handling such situations, social media is not.

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      10 months ago

      Shouldn’t they use every means in their disposal? I know for myself I don’t watch OTA or cable news, and I don’t listen to public radio. Sure, SMS alerts are great, but the more widespread the messaging, the better.

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        10 months ago

        Well the obvious answer would probably be yes, but I’m not so sure. We shouldn’t make either institutions or people expect they can use and find this sort of information on social media, as social media is inherently unreliable for many reasons.

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      10 months ago

      Mastodon can be used as a feed and integrated on websites easily. People can follow the latest news and reports about the disaster. They don’t need to use mastodon or follow them. People need to know this is the right place to go to for a live ticker about a dessaster with an easy URL like disaster.gov.jp.

      On top of this, they are independent with their own instance and don’t rely on social media companies servers.

      TV and radio are definitely not the right place anymore. Too many people live without them. SMS can be a thing. We

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        Mastodon can be used as a feed and integrated on websites easily.

        OK that makes a lot of sense. ;)