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It’s been a while since we provided an update, so it’s time to provide a brief update as of recently. Sakurajima Social and Sakurakey For a while now, we are running Sharkey with a bunch of additions. With that, we want to differentiate it a little, so you may notice that if you are not …
Now that we are in the depths of Spring, here are a few updates for Sakurajima. Sakurajima Social turns 1 year old Our sister server, Sakurajima Social, which used to run Calckey, renamed itself Firefish. However, given the poor state of Firefish, with the lead developer abandoning the project and giving it to someone else, …
At 3:15 PM Eastern Time to 5:43 PM ET, the main Mastodon and Misskey/Sharkey server went down due to a Denial of Service Attack. Event Type: Intermittent Packet Loss Start: 2024-04-18 15:15:00 Eastern End: 2024-04-18 17:43:00 Eastern Location(s): New York City Metro (NY1) Client Affecting: Yes Device(s): utena Event Summary: A loop within our network …
Around 3:15 PM ET, when I’m heading back to work, it seems that our main server that hosts our main server started having network connectivity issues. I have submitted a ticket with the hosting provider and hope to get something back. It appears to be network connectivity issue at the data center. Rest assured, we …
Now that it’s almost the end of February, a lot has happened since the move, and I want to give my thoughts on what happened last weekend. As the image suggests, we had a SPAM wave, perhaps the biggest one.
Finally, the migration of Sakurajima’s infrastructure is complete. Anyone having issues using our Mastodon server can ask for help on our forums.
Sakurajima is now on Bluesky at @joinsakurajima.org. This account will be used to share updates on our services (as it’s more than just Mastodon/Misskey), especially if our services were to go down for some reason. Also, we will shrill our servers and of course, Sharkey because we know Misskey/Sharkey is 1000% better than BlueSky. This …
We have been on a 4 GB shared Linode since December 2022. This is fine for the most part, but we are paying close to $70 in Linodes plus backups, and it doesn’t feel worth it. If I upgrade to 8 GB, the costs explode to $116, and at that point, I may as well …
Welcome to 2024! That means some changes on our front-facing websites for our Mastodon and Misskey/Sharkey servers. It’s official, and we moved our front-facing website for our Mastodon and Misskey/Sharkey to a dedicated domain name at joinsakurajima.org. Sure, the website needs a lot of updating, but I think it’s probably a good time to …
Now that we are heading to the end of the year, it’s time to give a brief recap. We were two months with around 40-50 users at the end of last year. Our server has grown several times, with about 348 active monthly users. Of course, there were some challenges in the beginning. Sure, when …
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 …
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 …
