Misskey Updates

Sakurajima Social that runs Sharkey, a fork of Misskey had issues recently, most of it stem with the most recent security update. I want to at least addressed what happened for transparency sake.

1. First, there was instability after the security patch was installed. This caused the...

As of 11:42 PM ET, Sakurajima Social is now on akane instead of utena. The old VM files will be kept for about a week or so before they are removed to free up space.

If you experience any issues, comment on this post or file a ticket.

The migration for Sakurajima Social to a RHEL based server didn’t quite work out. To make my job easier, I will be moving the existing VM to the new host using Xen Orchestra. This will take a bit longer. While the server is on the same datacenter, it will take about 2 hours and 10 minutes to...

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With February almost done and the “Snowcrete” finally melting away, here are some updates for March that haven’t been shared already.

Sakurajima Social Server Migration​

Sakurajima Social will be moved to the second server we just added to host...

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...

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...

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...