I can only speak for me personally. For me the way that I use GitHub I don’t think the concept of “friends of friends” would be all that useful on GitHub. Ther

I can only speak for me personally. For me the way that I use GitHub I don’t think the concept of “friends of friends” would be all that useful on GitHub. There are a handful of people that I know IRL that I follow on GitHub. And a few hundred that I follow in total. Out of the handful of people I know IRL, and who I follow on GitHub, only two or three of them are active there any given week. All of the other people I follow I have very little idea who they are. Usually I follow people I don’t know if I come across their profile and either the profile itself or their projects make me follow them. But I star way more different repos than the number of people I click follow on. For me, the main way of discovering new repos are: - Frontpage of HN, and comments in posts on HN. - Specific search results on Google when I have searched for libraries or programs that do specific things. - Libraries on crates.io that I think might be interesting to look into in the future. Maybe once or twice a month I happen to click on the main page of GitHub itself and see mentions of repos that have been committed to or starred or created by people I follow. So for me I don’t think “friends of friends” is a particularly great signal for things to look at. Most of the people I follow, I don’t know much about them. Likewise, for anyone that follows me it’s not necessarily any strong signal that I follow someone else in order to determine if activity from that someone else should be shown or weighted as more significant to my follower just because I happen to follow that other person. If you do want a strong signal for who to boost for my followers based on my own activity, go and look at the dependencies that I am using in my own projects. That’s a pretty good indicator that I put some amount of effort and interest into looking at something. This could be done by GitHub itself, parsing the Cargo.toml files of my projects and extracting the dependencies section and looking up which of those dependencies are hosted on GitHub.