I'm not sure that it really applies to me (since I'm not following anyone), but I could imagine it being useful if you only follow people you respect. If someon

I'm not sure that it really applies to me (since I'm not following anyone), but I could imagine it being useful if you only follow people you respect. If someone you respect is using a library, isn't that a strong endorsement or a vote of confidence? Of course, starring a repository doesn't mean you're using it... And you said you see this anyway in your feed... But maybe it'd still be useful as a thread to pull on or if you missed that event in your feed. If anything, it does seem to increase the "networkyness" of GitHub. I think I kind of like that.