Run something that capital doesn't really want to exist? Need to hope that bourgeois sympathiser isn't a flake or a control freak. Need to hope you've got a bottomless pit of volunteers willing to keep it going and never have life crises, are never flawed individuals, never fall out irreparably.
Need to hope you're good enough to grab a significant audience for it without any marketing budget and that everyone resists the temptation to compromise the content in pursuit of commercial viability.
I wish I could remember who said this on the old site: "The right spends money. The left spends people"