Sakurajima Blog

Here are some updates on our projects we have planned for the future. They won't be happening immediately, but probably 4-6 months from now.

Sakurajima Bluesky PDS Server plans​

We have been planning to host our own personal data store (PDS) server for a while, but there is...

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Since it’s the end of July, here are some brief updates and plans for Sakurajima.

Fundraising Update​

Here is our update on the fundraising goals as of July 27th.

Currently, we are at at 50% of the $108 month goal ($55 a month from Patreon). That goal...

Like with my other projects such as the Sakurajima Mastodon and Misskey instances, Pixelfed, WordPress hosting, and AniBlogTracker, my macOS and iOS apps have seperate support forums. Given my limited free time and that the apps I develop are in hobby mode, which means I work on it when I feel...

With half of 2025 is done, here are some updates for July.

Fundraising Update, Server Move Delayed​

As of now, we have decided to postpone the server move as we are still pretty far from our goals. Since the move will increase the service costs a bit, it’s not wise to do so...

After nearly three weeks of development, the main features of AniBlogTracker is complete and is close to the original, except for functionality that allows users to create their own feed from sites they followed. So far, we have about 208 sites that the user can view posts for.
For now, the...

It took a while, but after a little over 1 week of coding the backend in Python, the newly remade AniBlogTracker is now back. Note that while the basic features like browsing recent and searching posts along with browsing posts by site and author now works, the ability to subscribe/follow sites...

As we know, AniBlogTracker (https://aniblogtracker.com) has went down since May 7th. This site allows you to see the latest posts from Anime and Manga blogs, news letters and Youtube channels. With this possibly gone, we have lost a good resource of the latest posts from creators.

I...

With half of the year almost gone, here are some recent updates and additions:

• Sakurajima Social is now updated, now based on 2025,4,0, which adds a bunch of new features, including the chat feature.
• Ivory now works on Sakurajima Social.
• The current fundraising progress is...

Spring is finally here, and here are some short updates

• Sakurajima is in fundraising mode. The goal is to make our services sustainable in the long term. So far, we are only part of...

We know that the next few years are going to be some tough ones. For a while, I have covered half the costs, and it's not necessarily a big deal, but given this year and wanting to make Sakurajima sustainable in the long run, I have decided to start a fundraising drive. As...

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...