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Given growth, it’s pretty much inevitable that certain instances will need funding to survive.
Besides donation drives like Wikipedia, I can definitely see a world where small governments get involved.
Places like Estonia, Israel and Iceland that want to cheaply promote their tech industries and cultural content. Things these countries are doing in centralized spaces like Facebook - but now with more control.