Sakurajima Updates

On Monday, we reported that the dedicated server that hosted other Sakurajima services like the relay, Pixelfed, Forums, Yoshino Garden (WordPress blog hosting), and AniBlogTracker went down...

Last evening, the personal server which not only host my blog, but also other small services related to Sakurajima such as the mirror bots, relay, Pixelfed,Yoshino Garden, and AniBlogTracker went down. After logging into the management interface, it appears the SSD has stopped working...

While this update is late, here are some updates for this month.

Fundraising Update​

Here is our update on the fundraising goals as of September 12th.

Currently, we are at 44% of the $108 monthly goal ($47 a month from Patreon), from 50%. That goal is our monthly...

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...

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...

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...

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...