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What social network? The stars and follows? Does anyone actually care about them? Why? I've never seen the point.

• gdamjan1 8y ago
  forks, pull requests and review comments
  • AlexCoventry 8y ago
    Not much of a network effect, there. You go where the code base you want to participate in is.
    • Fice 8y ago
      It's harder to find contributors for a project that is not hosted on GitHub.
• pimlottc 8y ago
  They’re a decent measure of the reputation and stability of a project. I also use the stars to bookmark my projects for later.
• Fice 8y ago
  The developer identities that link developer activity across all projects, the network of forks.