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It’s been a while since I provided an instance update since a lot has happened. After our instance and our friends at Urusai social got attacked by alt-right trolls, I have to beef of moderation. We have some volunteers come up and help me with the moderation. The moderation team can be seen on...

With that, I want to briefly summarize what happened in the past week. Yes, mistakes were made, and I unintentionally put a target on my back. However, moderation is new as it wasn’t put up to the test now. I never moderated a community before, so there are going to be some mistakes made. I...

Welcome to March, here are some updates. Server Cost Increases Just recently, I received an email stating that the server cost will increase by 20% because of inflation, but it’s more of we just Akamai wants to make more money. With that, we calculated that our monthly costs will be $37 a...

Basically, this is the moment everyone is waiting for. Besides Mastodon 4.1.0 coming out, which brings a bunch of new features, but also we are now using neatchee’s fork of Mastodon Glitch, which he uses for urusai.social and most of the original work done by fef1312 in this pull request. Note...

Like Minami, Elon is messing things up again as Twitter’s money woes continues. This time, cutting access to third party API unless you pay up. It’s been a while since we made an update. I have posted on my main blog about the impacts of the Third Party API shutting down for free users unless...

A few weeks back, I have discovered Elk, which is a new Mastodon Client that resembles the Twitter interface. One of the reasons why people are reluctant to join Mastodon because it looks too hard. Elk solves this by giving an interface that looks like Twitter, so users can be at home when they...

With Mastodon and the Fediverse growing, we decided to expand our offerings in our ecosystems of apps. With that, we have set up a Pixelfed instance focusing on Anime, Manga, video games, and Japanese culture. This instance is named Usuzakuraya (薄桜屋）. 薄桜 means cherry blossom in a faint color...

With Twitter being a sinking ship, you have heard about Mastodon and the Fediverse as alternatives. I knew that it won’t go well when Elon Musk bought Twitter. That is why I created Sakurajima. Why Sakurajima if you are an Anime Blogger or Creator who Reviews Japanese Media? Back in the late...

I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I have been hard at work resolving the email issues Outlook and Office 365 users are having. Apparently, I did not configure Postfix correctly, thus some users weren’t getting verification emails. Setting OpenDKIM manually was a...

With the Twitter Migration underway, we have finally decided to resize the server to support a new influx of users who might join our instance. While Twitter has reversed it’s policy, people are coming to a realization that the erratic behavior from Elon Musk who control the platform and looking...

We have been working a bit overtime since a new spurt of people joined Mastodon. So with that, we rolled out some more features. Besides bringing tutorials to set up AutoShare of blog posts and making our quick start guide available in blog form, is some UI enhancements. We have finally...

With Space Karen literally dumping petrol on Twitter and literally set the place on fire, you have moved to Mastodon, a new social network you are hearing about. However, you don’t know how to use it, although it looks familiar. This post will tech you the basics of using Mastodon. What is...

So, you just moved to Mastodon, but have no idea how to auto-share your new blog posts to Mastodon. There are currently two methods to do this. If you are hosting WordPress on your own server, Mastodon Auto Post is the best option. A toot with a link to your blog posts is done instantly when you...

It’s been a while since I made an update regarding the changes over the past two weeks. First, we added a new theme called Gekka. More themes are coming down in the pipeline in the future, but this is an alternative to the Sakura theme. You can change the theme on Mastodon in the user’s...

First off, we finally deployed our new theme, which is Sakura themed. As expected, you can revert back to the regular Mastodon themes by going into Flavours and selecting a new theme. If you want the regular Mastodon experience, click Flavours, Vanilla Mastodon and select any theme and click...

Sakurajima is now running Mastodon Glitch, which is a more experimental version fork of Mastodon, which allows for more features. Note that you can revert back to vanilla Mastodon in the user preferences. For most users, Glitch-Soc should look the same as vanilla Mastodon.I plan to have an...

Sakurajima now upgraded to Mastodon 4.0.0rc3, which introduced some unspecified fixes. If you encounter any issues, file any issues on our forums. The post Mastodon upgraded to 4.0.0rc3 appeared first on Sakurajima. Continue reading...

Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, I felt that it’s time to give Mastodon another try and provide an alternative for people in the Anime Blogosphere and Anime fans alike an alternative for Twitter. Sakurajima (桜島), is a Mastodon instance which focuses on Japanese media, but you can discuss...

The community forums is now open, based on Xenforo for those who prefer a forums format to discuss about stuff. Note that Mastodon accounts registered on this instance will work with Mastodon login by clicking the Mastodon button for login or registration. Logging in with Discord and...

Given that Twitter continues to have massive missteps with the verification system and the potential to go bankrupt, our instance has grown quite a bit in the last two weeks. After all, people worry about the future of Twitter, especially since it’s going downhill fast. With that, we received a...