Non-profit means (in this case) payed by somebody who does not have anything to say about the transaction. It would be better to pay for it so that people who are interested in this subject have a say.
We should host it and collect membership fee from people who need this data. This way we can make it resilient against lack of government support. I would love to pay 5-10EUR/month to use such a service.
Unfortunately many of the big data libraries are like that and there is no motivation to fix these things. One example is the ORC Java libraries that had 100s of unnecessary dependencies while at the same time importing the filesystem into the format itself.
I have these jumping spiders living in my apartment and my kids love them. They are natural part of life, harmless and quite fun. I was not even aware of these little animals but once I found one and started to go down the jumping spider rabbit hole, and after tha, bumm, jumping spiders everywhere. I have taken pictures of 4 species so far in my country, which a super difficult task. Anyways, jumping spiders <3.
If anybody wondering.