The Original Japanese Media Fandom Mastodon and Misskey Community
In the past few months, our Firefish server has been pretty slow lately and not as active. As announced earlier, we planned to switch to Sharkey, a soft fork of Misskey with additional features. It can be akin to what Glitch-Soc is on Mastodon. There are some obvious reasons, especially with Firefish and Firefish.social being a …
Happy 1 Year Sakurajima Anniversary. While I made a long post about how we started and experiences managing the instance during the first year. Since I didn’t make a monthly update, I may as well share what we have ready. The Possible Switch to Sharkey I have been looking at a fork of Misskey, Sharkey …
Well, it’s finally September. After a month of chaos in July due to a certain Birdsite, things are settling down, but of course, there are a few instance updates.
Mastodon developers officially announce that full-text search for public toots is finally coming in the 4.2.0 release of Mastodon. There is a big difference as compared to Firefish and Akkoma implementations, it will only apply to public toots and you have to opt into it. Once this feature becomes available in 4.2.0 Beta 3 and Sakurajima …
Believe it or not, we created a 2 minute promo/skit promoting our server. I thought it will be fun way to try to promote our server and well, point out the issues Twitter/X is having lately. Feel free to share this video with your friends. As always, we do have videos helping users learn the …
We have decided that the old guides we made on the whim when the first wave of X users (nee Twitter) came in November of last year. Now the information is outdated since Mastodon went through many changes over the previous 10 months. Also, we aren’t running vanilla Mastodon anymore, meaning there will be differences in features. …
As July ends, Sakurajima has grown considerably ever since Elon made a lot of damaging moves on Twitter, now known as 𝕏. Believe it or not, as of today, our Mastodon server has 421 monthly active users, and our Firefish (formerly Calckey) server has 88. This brings the total to 509 monthly active users across …
It’s finally July, and it’s time to share a monthly update on the state of our instance. As expected, Sakurajima has grown quite a bit, thanks to its inclusion in JoinMastodon, coinciding with the fiasco at Reddit and Twitter being a bad place in general. You have noticed that our local timelines are getting busier, …
It seems that centralized platforms are facing an enshittification problem lately. It’s because of funds drying up or the platform’s management baking anti-consumer decision such as overpricing their API or allowing hate speech on their platform. While I wrote a long writeup on trying to convince Twitter users to switch to Mastodon, especially our instances at …
After much thinking, I think it was best to create another instance to make it easier for people on the fence about moving from Twitter to Mastodon to have an alternative. Some of the reasons why some might not move over from the birdsite to Mastodon is because they find it intimidating. We have a …
