tl;dr: You can now sponsor my open source development work via GitHub Sponsors.
GitHub Sponsors is the latest foray into building a more sustainable future for open source software development. There have been many attempts before, a few of which I tried (Gratipay, Patreon, etc.), but most of them never reached a critical mass, and at most you’d end up getting maybe $20-50/month out of the platform. Another prolific open source contributor I’ve long followed wrote about the topic of open source support and developer burnout in a post this year, Webform, Drupal, and Open Source…Where are we going?.