Hi, @Sujiyan !!

It will be almost 2 month since July 1 that Sujitech started maintaining mstdn.jp/mastodon.cloud. Can I ask you some questions? Some questions are already asked ever or you already said, I'm sorry about it.

01. What is the purpose that you decided to be a maintainer of mstdn.jp/mastodon.cloud?

02. Since Sujitech started maintaining mstdn.jp, it was down several times by VPS because of terrorism intended post, child porn post etc. What do you think of it?

@blank71

Hi finally got some time to reply -

1. In the early days of Fediverse / Mastodon I already know the cool concept. Also noticed the launch of Nico.friends and Pawoo - talked with Pawoo and several Pixiv members since 2016. I understand the decision to shut them down as a business but there’re huge potentials underestimated. When I heard Mstdn.jp and Mastodon.cloud is considering closing down I contact them directly to keep the maintenance.

@Sujiyan @blank71 So for pixiv my connection start from 2016 when I was still in U of Tokyo. Later in 2017’s IVS, talked with Mr. Ito (he’s ceo of Pixiv that time). I have more conversations with other Pixiv members afterwards including employee responsible for Pawoo. Later during the cryptocurrency bubble (late 2017/early 2018) I also talked to the current executive about Pawoo, Mastodon and the future of decentralized network.

@Sujiyan @blank71 “02. Since Sujitech started maintaining mstdn.jp, it was down several times by VPS because of terrorism intended post, child porn post etc. What do you think of it?”

It’s actually very interesting that some users will try to post malicious contents during the first several weeks of the transaction. During that time we are also negotiating with several VPS providers to find the most reasonable one (regulation and price). It will not like to happen again recently -

@Sujiyan @blank71 unless we have a huge user base growth etc. we also always have back up plan for our VPS /cloud provider and even other solutions(methods used by Proton Mail). These will be unnecessary for Mstdn.jp and Mastodon.cloud now.