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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 the way of our goal. The end goal is to have most of our costs covered. If you can and enjoy our services...

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 expected, I have...

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 server for future...

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 see the local timeline...

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...

Ah s**t! Here we go again. 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 trolling group...

Now that Sakurajima turns two years old, here are some brief updates for November. Botsinspace Shutdown It is announced that botsin.space is being shut down sometime next month. https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/113402561906820187 If anyone need a new home for Japanese Media/Culture...

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 create it, it’s in...

Look what Natsumi found. 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. We changed search...

Sakurajima Mastodon now looks, different after...3 months of no updates? Mastodon 4.3.0 finally came out after a year of no updates. In reality, we are using the glitch version of Mastodon, meaning we were on the bleeding edge for a while, but the final release came out recently. Notifications...

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 website using a Website...

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 Garden without being a...

Apparently, one of the addons for connected accounts is not compatible with Xenforo. I’ll go and try to fix it soon with a compatible version. Users should be able to login now.

Sakurajima Mattermost, located at https://chat.sakurajima.moe is for coordinating any community lead projects (and also hosts our staff chat). Requesting an account for a Japanese-media related project or other related purposes by needs basis. Send a PM and DM to @chikorita157@sakurajima.moe or...

This thread is meant to give some discussion for the revival of the AniManga Picture Challenge. Preliminary about page is on this blog: https://apc.yoshino.garden/about/ New blog post will be sent out as full toots when I configure it to announce the challenge of the week and eventually the...

This update should fix the Resources section, our guides should now be available again. Sign in with Apple, I need to fix since that doesn't currently work, yet. Some of the features in this release includes: Dark mode and style variants Extensive performance improvements Featured content...

XenForo has been updated to 2.3.0 Beta 1. Resource manager will be unavailable until Beta 2, which should come out soon. Sign in with Apple, I need to fix since that doesn't currently work, yet. Some of the features in this release includes: Dark mode and style variants Extensive performance...

Report any migration related issues after the migration of the Mastodon server to a new one here. This thread will close on March 17th.