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Hoshino Aiko (星野愛子・あいたん) 🌸
@sakurajima@sakurajima.moe
mastodon 4.4.26+glitch+urusai+sakuraMascot Name: Hoshino Aiko (星野愛子) , 愛称：あいたん (Informal Name: Ai-tan)
The official Sakurajima and administrative account for the latest updates regarding this instance. Sakurajima is a Mastodon instance for fans of Japanese media and Anime Bloggers.
This account also follows anime related content, creators, and curated Japanese accounts to make them available at our instance.
If you need assistance, please contact our mod team or this account. See about page.
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July 2026 Updates - Sakurajima Significant Cost Increase
https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/july-2026-updates-sakurajima-significant-cost-increase.4728/
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We have updated the Sakurajima Costs reflecting the new costs of running our services along with a progress bar to our yearly goal.
https://joinsakurajima.org/about/sakurajima-costs/
The progress will be updated periodically.
#sakurajimainfo
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While the inital new increased costs are estimated, I finally got the actual costs now that an email was sent indicating the price increase of the second server.
The new monthly costs is $212.5 a month or $2,550 a year.
The goal is to have at least 50% of the costs covered with enough donations for $106 a month
At the moment, the current Patreon monthly is at $55/106. This is not sustainable in the long term if we don't get enough monthly donations. This does not factor total donations, the goal is $1,275 this year with the break even is $2550 a year.
We have raised 476.02/1275 this year.
If you can, please consider making a monthly donation.
For those who are currently donating or have donated in the past, we thank you for your support.
Paypal - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HREN4ATRLZ54S
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/sakurajimamastodon
Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/V7V8GAJR9
Full explaination is here: https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/july-2026-updates-sakurajima-significant-cost-increase.4728/post-5235
Note that we are not the only one that is facing increased costs as Hetzner has recently done a third price increase.
#sakurajimainfo
Sakurajima Social is now on a New Server https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/sakurajima-social-is-now-on-a-new-server.4717/
As mentioned in our recent announcement, we are now accepting invites to the Sakurasora PDS now in beta testing. The eventual goal is to have it work with an alternative relay and not rely on any of the main Bluesky relays or moderation. The PDS is only up, but in beta testing. You can also transfer your Bluesky account to Sakurasora during sign-up.
People who can request an invite must have the following. You can request an invite by creating a ticket.
Creators who create the following:
- Blogging/Podcasting/Creating Videos about Japanese media and/or cultureCreating fan-art/anime-styled artwork (including OCs) (No accounts that primarily post AI-generated artwork
- VTubing (including creating models)Vocaloid/Voiceroid (works created with Vocaloid, Cevio Ai, SynthV, Voiceroid, Voicepeak, etc) Fanfiction or fiction (based off Japanese works or Japanese inspired)
- Any small business selling Japanese goods. Japanese inspired video games, RPG Maker or visual novels.
- Cosplay, and other creations involving Japanese media or Japanese inspired.Fansubbing or translation of unlicensed works.
Additionally, we allow people to request an invite who:
- Have a current account on Sakurajima Mastodon or Sakurajima Social for at least * three months in good standingPeople who donated to Sakurajima through Patreon or through one-time donations
You can request an invite using our ticketing system.
Due to a wave of spam sending phishing direct messages, mastodon.world has been temporarily limited.
We have put filters to reject any further phishing messages, but the contents may change.
Do not click any links in those posts.
Mastodon, Sakurakey (Sharkey), and Anime Industry mirror accounts (IceShrimp) have been updated to fix the security vulnerability.
Note: Mastodon only has the security fix cherrypicked as we will be staying on the current version until the customized 4.5.x fork is ready, hopefully by early July we will have it ready (including a migration to a newer OS).
In about one and a half hours, Sakurajima Social will go down for maintenance for two hours starting at 10 PM to dump the database and redis and move to the new server. This process should not take long. The maintenance page will show the status. The maintenance window is due to DNS propagation.
Tomorrow, Sakurajima Social will be updated for a security patch that should come after the server is moved.
Sakurasora Update: I updated the Tranquil PDS software again, but I did realize the systemd service was using the old binary and the server process name changed since I initally installed it.
This should fix some bugs, namely the enable quotes function in the post’s interaction settings in the Bluesky app.
Sakurajima Social: We have found the issue with the recent instability, and it has to do with the security fix we applied recently. There will be a fix, hopefully soon.
https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/issues/1279
Sakurajima Mastodon: The server will reboot at 10 PM tomorrow to restart so Veeam can work for full monthly backups. Downtime should only be a few minutes.
Sakurajima Social update: The software is now updated to patch a security vulnerability.
Sakurajima Downtime Post Mortem and Mitigations
https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/sakurajima-downtime-post-mortem-and-mitigations.4718/
Sakurajima Social Update: The Redis server had issues earlier this morning and we had to restart it. The activity may be a bit behind, but it will catch up in a few hours.
We will be monitoring this situation to see if the problem comes back.
Sakurajima Update: The server is now moved. It may take a while for the DNS to update.
(The reason it took so long mostly because of the original VM was using bios instead of UEFI. The new VM needed to be changed to bios or it wouldn’t boot)
Sakurajima Social update: As mentioned two weeks ago, we will be doing a second attempt to move the server. This time, we will just clone the disk using Clonezilla and restore it on the destination server. This process should take about three hours plus DNS propagation starting at 9 PM EDT Today..
The following will affect the following:
- Mirrored Industry accounts
- Sakurajima Social
Note: There has been emails wondering where is the Sakurasora invite codes (Bluesky PDS) after submitting a ticket.
You should have received a password when a ticket is created when you are not logged in. If you didn’t receive one, we advise you to sign up for an account with the email used to create the ticket. Then I can manually assign the ticket so you can view them.
We recommend creating an account first, although you have an option to create tickets without one so you can view your past tickets.
As you know, hosting companies are raising hosting costs, and in some cases, significantly, and it may of course affect every instance on the Fediverse and independent PDS provider.
While we anticipate that costs may increase in the future, if you find our services useful or want to support the community, you can help us out by donating to keep our services running for the forseeable future.
If there are 7 more people who are willing to donate $10 a month or 15 more donate $5 a month, we will be in pretty good shape in terms of sustainablity, especially since we are expanding services such as opening up our independent Bluesky PDS, alternatives for Discord, and more. Even if you are unable to donate, our services will remain ad-free.
Current Progress (one time donations and Dec-Feb monthly donations): 246.61/1,584
Patreon Total Monthly: $53
Total Monthly Donations: 58 out of $132 per month.
For those who are currently donating or have donated in the past, we thank you for your support.
Paypal - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HREN4ATRLZ54S
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/sakurajimamastodon
Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/V7V8GAJR9
Progress with Sakurasora (AT Protocol/Bluesky PDS) (and Launch, soon…)
https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/progress-with-sakurasora-and-launch-soon….4708/
Sakurajima now has a centralized ticket system to make it easier for users to get help with using our services. This replaces our support email.
While it’s not required to create a forum account to file a ticket, it’s recommended that you register for an account so you can view tickets that you created in the past.
This is also where you can request an invite to our chat servers (Zulip is only available for now, but Spacebar will be available in a few days)
December 2025 Updates
https://forums.sakurajima.moe/threads/december-2025-updates.4694/#post-5108
We are running a funraiser for 2026. The first goal is to reach $210 in total donations or $70 a month on Patreon. More details about that is in the post.
We are trying to resolve some issues with Sakurajima Social post server move.
Known issues:
* Statistics are currently not updating (still figuring out this issue)
* Stability issues. I have increased the number of workers to make better use of available resources and increase the amount of RAM node can use.
If you continue to experience any issues, file a ticket on the forums
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Looks like there were technical issues with the clone. Trying again. #sakurajimainfo
At last, we are making some progress in finally setting up Sakurasora, which is Sakurajima’s version of Bluesky PDS, but independently run. The PDS is now up, but now in inital testing.
It will be open for invites in the near future. More about this coming soon.
Now that our ticketing system is up, people on Sakurajima who are interested in testing Zulip may now request an invite link.
https://forums.sakurajima.moe/support/categories/request-invite.10/create
AniBlogTracker updates will be moved to @aniblogtracker@sakurajima.moe in the near future.
You can follow AniBlogTracker (https://aniblogtracker.app) updates on:
Mastodon - @aniblogtracker@sakurajima.moe
Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/aniblogtracker.app (@aniblogtracker.app)
The new uptime page for Sakurajima is now up: https://uptime.tamaki-shimai.moe/status/sakurajima
There was a minor blip in connectivity with the VM that hosts our Forums, Pixelfed, Yoshino Garden, Relay, AniBlogTracker, and Sakurasora (Bluesky PDS). This should now be resolved.
Sakurajima Social: My applogizes that the server went down for a whole day. I will try to restore the status monitoring website to make sure the downtime don’t last more than a day. (the status monitor was never set back)
I will be actively monitoring it to find the root cause this time.