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It’s that time of year again as we head to the holidays and the end of the year. I want to give a little update on what is planned for this month. Possible Server Move I am contemplating a server move to a bigger one due to the fact we are using a lot of storage due to three years of activity...

On October 28th 2022, I started Sakurajima as an alternative to Twitter when it was taken over by Elon Musk. Since then, we have grown quite a bit, although of course the number of active users have stagnated over the past year. We have expanded our services beyond Mastodon and the Forums since...

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 due to an SSD crash. Most services are now back online. This includes: Official Website Relay Pixelfed...

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...

We will be having our own version of Bluesky called Sakurasora (Sakurasky) relying on the Blacksky relay. However, the app, feeds, and additional moderation will be done on our end (with the addition of using Blacksky’s moderation). The main Sakurasora feeds will contain Japanese media...

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 costs. However, 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 no easy way to...

Centralized social media lead to a decline of things like blogs, forums, and IRC chat rooms, because of connivence and everyone on one platform instead of accounts on every forum community. Maybe there will be a breaking point where people will just seek out alternatives

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 is our monthly costs The fundraising total...

I need to fix and add the changes to the search by hashtags API as our changes are apparently not compatible since the last update. As for the notifications, it seems to work for me now. Not sure what happened here.

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...

Sorry for the late reply, but the size limit for video is 15 MB. This is true with all Mastodon servers. If you need to upload a longer video, you should host it elsewhere and link it.

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 at this time...

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...