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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I dream of a world where doing your homework when choosing software to learn is not so rare

But when it comes to most people out there, we're not in that world right now, and popularity does matter, so boosting shitty devs' products is harmful to the FOSS ecosystem. HTH