Comment by shermantanktop
10 months ago
Easier said than done. If you care about users, and then realize most of them are jerks, it’s deflating. Maybe the secret is to not care about users, but the risk is that you end up doing self-gratifying work that leads nowhere.
Not exactly the same but being a mod made me realize the same, people will 100% treat you like a whole other being in a dehumanizing way, if you're just a passionate person about the topic you get whiplash at first.
Yeah, I agree. Maybe that's why I'm not doing great work -- I simply don't care about users. But again, you don't have to care about all users. You only need to care about the ones that have the same mindset. That's why I think working in smaller communities is better. Asahi Linux and Rust in Linux are the worst projects in that perspective because they both try to touch too many users.
But again, maybe they can hire someone like me, whose sole job is to block the very worst entitled users.