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> Yes, even GitHub Maybe it's just me, but I never got the hang of the social network part of GitHub. Sure, I interact with issues related to work and I star r

> Yes, even GitHub Maybe it's just me, but I never got the hang of the social network part of GitHub. Sure, I interact with issues related to work and I star repos that I might need later, but I never used the feed or had some discussions on it which are not work related.

5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
It's not just you. I always thought this statement ("github is a social media platform") to be a bit of a meme. I've never had any interactions like that, nor have seen anyone else do it. Some users prefer to make their profile a bulletin board of their "achievements" (real achievements speak for themselves without glitz or unicorn symbols), or use it as something of a PR platform. You can easily avoid those types. (For example, these was a pretty funny LGTM from some random guy on the recent multicore OCaml pull request in like 5-10 minutes since it was posted. The PR in question is a giant and very complicated patchset that was in the works for about a decade, I think?)
- 3np 5y ago
  I always took it as that interacting with each others’ repos, issues, and PRs effectively makes it a social network. It’s just a different kind of dynamic than we see in other kinds of SNS.
sshine 5y ago
I also never got the hang of it. But I did receive comments in private from acquaintances who had picked up on my GitHub activities. On the one hand, I felt happy for the feedback, because it was people that I like to interact with. On the other hand, I felt like I wasn't aware that this information was aggregated and posted on a dashboard page that anyone who ever clicked "follow" on my profile was looking at with some frequency. I do use the GitHub profile as a resumé, and as a work platform. I don't have LinkedIn. I do use it to showcase some of the stuff I find interesting to work on, and to show my skillset. But I also realize that I'm giving away timestamp information about my work habits, and I don't know if I like that.

5e92cb50239222b 5y ago

It's not just you. I always thought this statement ("github is a social media platform") to be a bit of a meme. I've never had any interactions like that, nor have seen anyone else do it. Some users prefer to make their profile a bulletin board of their "achievements" (real achievements speak for themselves without glitz or unicorn symbols), or use it as something of a PR platform. You can easily avoid those types. (For example, these was a pretty funny LGTM from some random guy on the recent multicore OCaml pull request in like 5-10 minutes since it was posted. The PR in question is a giant and very complicated patchset that was in the works for about a decade, I think?)

3np 5y ago
I always took it as that interacting with each others’ repos, issues, and PRs effectively makes it a social network. It’s just a different kind of dynamic than we see in other kinds of SNS.

sshine 5y ago

I also never got the hang of it. But I did receive comments in private from acquaintances who had picked up on my GitHub activities. On the one hand, I felt happy for the feedback, because it was people that I like to interact with. On the other hand, I felt like I wasn't aware that this information was aggregated and posted on a dashboard page that anyone who ever clicked "follow" on my profile was looking at with some frequency. I do use the GitHub profile as a resumé, and as a work platform. I don't have LinkedIn. I do use it to showcase some of the stuff I find interesting to work on, and to show my skillset. But I also realize that I'm giving away timestamp information about my work habits, and I don't know if I like that.