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While there were some minor issues with the move of Sakurajima Social, it appears most of the issues have been resolved. With that, here are the April 2026 updates. Sakurajima Mastodon Future Updates With work on Sakurajima Social now complete, the update to Sakurajima Mastodon will eventually...

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

I think we need to implement uptime monitoring again. I didn’t get the alert it was down for a whole day until now. I will make changes so it won’t get this far next time. The uptime monitor was not set up again after the server crash last year on my personal server.

Looking at it, it seems that the Redis server locked up. I restarted both the redis server and the Misskey process.

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...

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 additional services and future service expansion...

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One can hope... and bring back forums?

The support forums for our services like Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc are now replaced by the ticketing system. The content of those forums are now archived and read only.

With some advancements in personal data stores (PDS) being easier to set up along with account migration process being easier than before, we are almost ready to start public testing of Sakurasora, our version of Bluesky, but independently run and not rely on any of Bluesky’s controversial...

For those looking for an alternative to Discord, we are planning to provide a potential chat server alternative to host your community. Note that since Sakurajima is an Japanese media and culture centric community, we want to give priority to the following: Creative communities/groups that...

You might have know that Discord is requiring all users to go into invasive face cans or providing identification. I know that people will not be comfortable with this. https://bsky.app/profile/wario64.bsky.social/post/3megnvmuvws2g While we only have a basic chat feature added to the forums...

There will be planned downtime to move Sakurajima extra services to the new dedicated server. This will affect the following: Forums Pixelfed Relay MAL Updater OS X project website (Hachidori, Shukofukurou, Kanimanabu, etc) Yoshino Garden (WordPress blog hosting) AniBlogTracker Services will...

Now that we are in the first day of February, here are some upcoming updates for Sakurajima New Server and Sakurajima Social and Sakurajima Misc Services Server Move We have added a new dedicated server, which we will use to move the extra services (Forums, Pixelfed, WordPress) and Sakurajima...