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Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media
(gizmodo.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Wikipedia also has to regularly beg for donations and is probably something of an outlier.
Pretty much every podcast I've ever heard has sponsors and built-in ads, or at least shout-outs.
I do think Patreon-style funding is a really good model, but ultimately, most people will not pay for a thing if they can get it for free and tell themselves that other people will pay for it instead. Exceptions to that exist, but they're rare.