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> Github is a social network Is it? I would have said it was a collaborative tool. I don't use it to 'socialise' and 'chat' with other users. I use it to th
by DrBazza 6y ago
> Github is a social network
Is it? I would have said it was a collaborative tool. I don't use it to 'socialise' and 'chat' with other users. I use it to thrash out PRs.
But I do agree with the gist of what you're saying.
- qbasic_forever 6y agoVery much a social network. Look at your profile/activity feed and how it gamifies contributions with the activity chart (the more you do across github, the more it lights up). Github project stars are just the same as FB likes. Or how they prominently put fork buttons on every repo that immediately clone and copy a fork of the project to your repo. Or that github has an entirely new inbox of messages and issue replies to deal with (and all the issues of potential harassment, etc. that come with that honestly).