2024 Year in Review for Sakurajima

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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 growth, keeping future costs under control and giving a performance boost.

Otherwise, our services grew steadily with new features added, most notably quote posts and the Bubble Timeline on our Mastodon server. Also, the BlueSky bridge finally opened up, an opt-in service that allows you to follow users on BlueSky who opted in and vice versa. Most recently, we started mirroring more Anime/Manga industry accounts to make them available on the Fediverse.

As for 2025, we will mostly do the same, and perhaps we will see more growth in the Fediverse. Perhaps Bluesky will face an enshittification cycle. With that, we plan to continue to improve our services and expand on some. These are some of the ideas that I have in mind:

• Webring and Blog Aggregator, which allows users a place to share their latest blog posts and subscribe to other blogs
• Loops server for short-form Japanese media-related videos (alternative to Tiktok)
• BlueSky PDS hosting, perhaps?

With that, we wish everyone a Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year

 

The Bluesky hosting is interesting! I’ll need to figure out how to move my account from main if/when that happens. It might make me use that one a bit more - it’s definitely more of interest than Threads.

 

The Bluesky hosting is interesting! I’ll need to figure out how to move my account from main if/when that happens. It might make me use that one a bit more - it’s definitely more of interest than Threads.

Apparently, there is no easy way to migrate accounts. The reason we want to provide PDS hosting to allow users to host their accounts elsewhere without worrying about enshittification.

We will eventually implement it if BlueSky makes it easy to do so.

 

Apparently, there is no easy way to migrate accounts. The reason we want to provide PDS hosting to allow users to host their accounts elsewhere without worrying about enshittification.

We will eventually implement it if BlueSky makes it easy to do so.

I think the bluesky company has plans to make it easy or so I read on github. The option to host a Personal Data Server independent of bluesky seems interesting.

 

I think the bluesky company has plans to make it easy or so I read on github. The option to host a Personal Data Server independent of bluesky seems interesting.

Interesting... I haven't seen anything about migrating accounts to a PDS on the Bluesky interface, but hopefully this will change soon.