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Now that we are in the depths of Spring, here are a few updates for Sakurajima. Sakurajima Social turns 1 year old Our sister server, Sakurajima Social, which used to run Calckey, renamed itself Firefish. However, given the poor state of Firefish, with the lead developer abandoning the project...

Today’s DoS (Denial of Service) attack in a nutshell. At 3:15 PM Eastern Time to 5:43 PM ET, the main Mastodon and Misskey/Sharkey server went down due to a Denial of Service Attack. The network traffic chart for utena (hypervisor server). Since this is a Denial of Service attack, which is a...

Around 3:15 PM ET, when I’m heading back to work, it seems that our main server that hosts our main server started having network connectivity issues. I have submitted a ticket with the hosting provider and hope to get something back. It appears to be network connectivity issue at the data...

No, not another can of SPAM! Now that it’s almost the end of February, a lot has happened since the move, and I want to give my thoughts on what happened last weekend. As the image suggests, we had a SPAM wave, perhaps the biggest one. What Exactly Happened? It started last Thursday with...

At least most of the mone is now done… for now. Finally, the migration of Sakurajima’s infrastructure is complete. Anyone having issues using our Mastodon server can ask for help on our forums. Why make a move from Linode? Believe it or not, Sakurajima was initially hosted on a 2 GB Linode...

Sakurajima is now on Bluesky at @joinsakurajima.org. This account will be used to share updates on our services (as it’s more than just Mastodon/Misskey), especially if our services were to go down for some reason. Also, we will shrill our servers and of course, Sharkey because we know...

We have been on a 4 GB shared Linode since December 2022. This is fine for the most part, but we are paying close to $70 in Linodes plus backups, and it doesn’t feel worth it. If I upgrade to 8 GB, the costs explode to $116, and at that point, I may as well get a dedicated server with a lot of...

Welcome to 2024! That means some changes on our front-facing websites for our Mastodon and Misskey/Sharkey servers. It’s official, and we moved our front-facing website for our Mastodon and Misskey/Sharkey to a dedicated domain name at joinsakurajima.org. Sure, the website needs a lot of...

Now that we are heading to the end of the year, it’s time to give a brief recap. We were two months with around 40-50 users at the end of last year. Our server has grown several times, with about 348 active monthly users. Of course, there were some challenges in the beginning. Sure, when the...

Soon, Sakurajima Social, but with more shark plushies. In the past few months, our Firefish server has been pretty slow lately and not as active. As announced earlier, we planned to switch to Sharkey, a soft fork of Misskey with additional features. It can be akin to what Glitch-Soc is on...

Happy 1 Year Sakurajima Anniversary. While I made a long post about how we started and experiences managing the instance during the first year. Since I didn’t make a monthly update, I may as well share what we have ready. The Possible Switch to Sharkey I have been looking at a fork of Misskey...

I assume, back to school for teenagers and college students. Well, it’s finally September. After a month of chaos in July due to a certain Birdsite, things are settling down, but of course, there are a few instance updates. First, as mentioned before, Elastic Search is finally set up at...

Finding toots from opted-in users will become a bit easier. Mastodon developers officially announce that full-text search for public toots is finally coming in the 4.2.0 release of Mastodon. There is a big difference as compared to Firefish and Akkoma implementations, it will only apply to...

I guess some will like this. Believe it or not, we created a 2 minute promo/skit promoting our server. I thought it will be fun way to try to promote our server and well, point out the issues Twitter/X is having lately. Feel free to share this video with your friends. As always, we do have...

Mimori working overtime on her computer. We have decided that the old guides we made on the whim when the first wave of X users (nee Twitter) came in November of last year. Now the information is outdated since Mastodon went through many changes over the previous 10 months. Also, we aren’t...

As July ends, Sakurajima has grown considerably ever since Elon made a lot of damaging moves on Twitter, now known as 𝕏. Believe it or not, as of today, our Mastodon server has 421 monthly active users, and our Firefish (formerly Calckey) server has 88. This brings the total to 509 monthly...

Basically me and our mods as we get the occasional SPAM account for some gambling service, furniture store, or towing service in some foreign country, The fish are the spammers. It’s finally July, and it’s time to share a monthly update on the state of our instance. As expected, Sakurajima has...

With centralized platforms turning into, crap, you might feel frustrated. You don’t have to here! It seems that centralized platforms are facing an enshittification problem lately. It’s because of funds drying up or the platform’s management baking anti-consumer decision such as overpricing...

Also setup in record time too! After much thinking, I think it was best to create another instance to make it easier for people on the fence about moving from Twitter to Mastodon to have an alternative. Some of the reasons why some might not move over from the birdsite to Mastodon is because...

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...