Thank you for asking! As far as resources we're doing quite well hardware/network wise and our colocation provider in Seattle Washington has been incredibly helpful to us since September of 2022 when we needed to scale up Mastodon quickly.

On the Mastodon side folks there suggested a "Not a Blue Check Mark Club" as a fun and inexpensive way for the community to show support without having to make a big commitment. This has now been subscripted as "Not a Closed API Club"

It should also be clear that the best way to support SDF's efforts in the Fediverse is to use the resources and to talk to your friends about why Decentralized, Federated social networking is better for us all. And while it is not at all necessary, any financial support through donations or membership on the SDF Public Access UNIX side is greatly appreciated and goes to our mission of "a community platform for inspiring, facilitating and implementing new ideas".

[https://sdf.org/support](Not a Blue Check Mark / Not a Closed API Club)

Some see it as lacking a second processor, additional memory and fans. We see opportunity and potential for growth (after a firmware flash 🤪)

I can't speak for the system operators, but I'm sure that donations are always appreciated!

You can donate via Paypal using the "Make a Donation" button on the landing page: http://sdf.org/. You can alternatively mail cash directly to the following address:

SDF Public Access UNIX System
Post Office Box 17355
Seattle WA 98127 USA

Donation is actually one of the ways one can "validate" an SDF unix account, which enables additional shell commands. When donating via Paypal, simply write "Validate [SDF Unix username]" into the message area to get validated. For mail-in donations, you would instead write your SDF username onto the upper-left corner of the envelope.

Crypto donation is apparently also available by request. You can contact membership@sdf.org for wallet info.