It's a tough balancing act between being appropriately resourced for your mission and not profiteering from the movement. My belief is that being deplatformed and having your living taken away is a reasonable cause for asking for public support and spreading the load.

I had 7k Twitter followers going into all this and that was the result of years of work; that's all gone, although it has "carried forward" into this and other platforms. I pivoted my mailing list from being mostly tech/telecoms into the wider information war, but as a business asset it's defunct in its original role.

Fetishising penury and poverty is self-sabotage. Conversely, grifting is a thing, as is the dishonourable exploitation of the sacrifices of others. My view is that all profit is the result of some form of exercise of power, and it isn't wrong to make a profit, but you should be mindful of what you do with it when it arises.