# Donations on the internet

Donations on the internet (This was written in the context of donations to people who do free stuff on the internet, open-source software and so on.) Donations are broken not because "few people care", but because it's an unsolvable information problem: no one knows how much they should be donating and to whom, and it would be impossible to even think about the perfect donation strategy, much more impossible to execute it. I use a ton of free services and consume tons of different contents from multiple sources, but it only occurred me to donate to some. And I'm probably donating too much to t

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