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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it EMOTIONALLY supports them. Dude. It's okay. It also supports the users who get value out of it in actual material ways.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A. Not a "dude"

B. I'll pose the same rhetorical as I did to the other person that didn't think popularity was support:

If you see two pieces of identical software, one with 1000 downloads and one with 100,000, which would you choose?