The Original Japanese Media Fandom Mastodon and Misskey Community
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 Now the information is outdated since Mastodon went through many changes over the previous 10 months.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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
