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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...

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...

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 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...

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 am trying...

With half of the year almost gone, here are some recent updates and additions: Sakurajima Social is now updated, now based on 2025,4,0, which adds a bunch of new features, including the chat feature. Ivory now works on Sakurajima Social. The current fundraising progress is $347.82 out of $1284...

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...