The Original Japanese Media Fandom Mastodon and Misskey Community
It’s been a while since I provided an instance update since a lot has happened. After our instance and our friends at Urusai social got attacked by alt-right trolls, I have to beef of moderation. We have some volunteers come up and help me with the moderation. The moderation team can be seen on the …
With that, I want to briefly summarize what happened in the past week. Yes, mistakes were made, and I unintentionally put a target on my back. However, moderation is new as it wasn’t put up to the test now. I never moderated a community before, so there are going to be some mistakes made. I …
Welcome to March, here are some updates. Server Cost Increases Just recently, I received an email stating that the server cost will increase by 20% because of inflation, but it’s more of we just Akamai wants to make more money. With that, we calculated that our monthly costs will be $37 a month. Here is …
Basically, this is the moment everyone is waiting for. Besides Mastodon 4.1.0 coming out, which brings a bunch of new features, but also we are now using neatchee’s fork of Mastodon Glitch, which he uses for urusai.social and most of the original work done by fef1312 in this pull request. Note that since we are finally …
It’s been a while since we made an update. I have posted on my main blog about the impacts of the Third Party API shutting down for free users unless you pay up. If you know anyone that creates Japanese-media-centric content or is an Anime Blogger, point them to our instance. We cater to Anime Bloggers and …
A few weeks back, I have discovered Elk, which is a new Mastodon Client that resembles the Twitter interface. One of the reasons why people are reluctant to join Mastodon because it looks too hard. Elk solves this by giving an interface that looks like Twitter, so users can be at home when they move …
With Mastodon and the Fediverse growing, we decided to expand our offerings in our ecosystems of apps. With that, we have set up a Pixelfed instance focusing on Anime, Manga, video games, and Japanese culture. This instance is named Usuzakuraya (薄桜屋）. 薄桜 means cherry blossom in a faint color, and 屋 means shop. What is …
With Twitter being a sinking ship, you have heard about Mastodon and the Fediverse as alternatives. I knew that it won’t go well when Elon Musk bought Twitter. That is why I created Sakurajima. Why Sakurajima if you are an Anime Blogger or Creator who Reviews Japanese Media? Back in the late 2000s and 2010s, …
I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I have been hard at work resolving the email issues Outlook and Office 365 users are having. Apparently, I did not configure Postfix correctly, thus some users weren’t getting verification emails. Setting OpenDKIM manually was a pain, so I nuked the current Postfix install …
With the Twitter Migration underway, we have finally decided to resize the server to support a new influx of users who might join our instance. While Twitter has reversed it’s policy, people are coming to a realization that the erratic behavior from Elon Musk who control the platform and looking for alternatives like Mastodon. Remember, …
