I was thinking about this today but maybe not for the reasons the author specified. I feel like I bought into the gamified era of social as I lived it through m

I was thinking about this today but maybe not for the reasons the author specified. I feel like I bought into the gamified era of social as I lived it through my 20s and 30s. Part of that meant I became a star chaser. I have a couple projects that exceed 10k and 20k stars. What did I gain for that? Nothing really. I mean some of it helped pay my bills but in reality, I was sucked into some sort of "hype it up" vortex. Even now its a habit hard to break when creating new projects. I'd delete my account but it's still a valuable resource for storing software. I could shift it all elsewhere or maybe just let it all go, not sure yet. But definitely something to think about. Code doesn't need to live on Github. Its a useful way to share, but it's not the be all and end all of code.