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by loup-vaillant 1063 days ago
This comment has a point: there are much fewer developers than there are users, and our moral weight is proportionally tiny.
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I think the long tail of user bases makes a big difference here. Most programs have few users. Most devs work on programs with few users.
Most devs work on programs with orders of magnitude more users than devs, even for “few” users. The absolute number does not matter.