Sakurajima Blog

For a while now, our Pixelfed instance is only available for those who requested it and te process of account creation was done manually. Now, since the settings to send the emails are fixed, we are opening it for approval based registration. You must have an account on our servers or any...

With the strong likelihood of a Tiktok ban being upheld by the Supreme Court, we have plans to host a Loops server, which is an open source and federated version of Tiktok that uses ActivityPub. More details forthcoming.

When it becomes possible to host one, we will give priority to the...

Now that 2024 is ending, it’s time to briefly review what happened in 2024 as a whole and, of course, our plans for 2025.
As expected, things leveled off after the explosive growth in 2023. The most significant change Sakurajima made earlier this year was moving to a dedicated...

December is finally here as we head to the holidays. Here are a few updates.

Bubble Timeline is now available on Sakurajima Mastodon​

The Bubble Timeline, previously only on Sakurajima Social, our Misskey server, is now available on Mastodon. This feature allows users to...

If you are using the Bluesky bridge, while Bluesky -> Fediverse is still working, bridging posts from Fediverse->Bluesky is severely delayed. You might not know already, BlueSky got an influx of new users in recent weeks, and of course overloaded.

As a result, Bluesky apparently paused...

In the second time in a month, the same troll group has decided to SPAM the Fediverse around midnight last night. This time, the troll group used QR codes. You shouldn't scan the QR code, but decoding it leads to a Discord link to a familar Japanese...

Now that Sakurajima turns two years old, here are some brief updates for November.

Botsinspace Shutdown​

It is announced that botsin.space is being shut down sometime...

Believe it or not, Sakurajima turns two years old on October 28th. I started this server a day after Elon Musk bought Twitter. At the same time, I used it as an alternative, as nobody knew what would happen to Twitter. If you want to learn the story about what motivated me to...

For a while now, Sakurajima Social had inferior search since we did a fall back to the database search, which doesn't give as good results. Before that, we were using Meilisearch, which is the only search that is supported on Sharkey, same as Misskey...

Mastodon 4.3.0 finally came out after a year of no updates. In reality, we are using the glitch version of Mastodon, meaning we were on the bleeding edge for a while, but the final release came out...

With Matt Mullenweg ruining the trust in WordPress with his pointless war against WP Engine and also hurting the users because he can't get his way, I decided to reduce our reliance on WordPress. Eventually, JoinSakurajima website will eventually get turned into a static...

If you haven't kept up with the WordPress Drama, Matt Mullenweg is actively destroying WordPress. While we hope there is some kind of hard fork that will come from this, we are changing some things to mitigate this.

• Existing blog owners can move their blog to Yoshino...

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...