Communities with sufficient interest in existing with any control over their future and content may need to fund themselves via donation. Also, in the 90s and

Communities with sufficient interest in existing with any control over their future and content may need to fund themselves via donation. Also, in the 90s and early 00s, game servers cost money for many online FPS games - people hosted long running communities. Sometimes surviving via donation, sometimes just the benevolence of a person into the hobby with money. Community finds a way.