Thanks to the Reddit growth spike, along with being listed on Fedi Gaden and Join Mastodon, we are seeing growth. It's all thanks to the ensittification of Twitterand Reddit and people simply having enough of being mistreated.
This will be a trend that centralized platforms will face as they start to realize that they can't keep losing money as VC funding dries up with interest rates rising. Cohost just recently revealed they are losing $41k a month.
Thankfully, our operation doesn’t require expensive servers as we are running services for the fediverse, which makes hosting our services more affordable.
As always, while optional, you can support us on:
Paypal - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HREN4ATRLZ54S
Ko-Fi - https://ko-fi.com/V7V8GAJR9
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/sakurajimamastodon
Any funding helps us offset the costs the owner has to pay to cover the costs of running the server, and also increase capacity when needed. Regardless if you donate monthly or not, we will continue to provide our services for free forever.
Our cost breakdowns can be seen at our WordPress site:
https://blog.sakurajima.moe/about/sakurajima-costs/
Break even cost is currently $26/month.Note the owner covers the other half the costs since, well they use the service after all too.