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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This in turn caused a market for bot stars to spring up. You can buy stars by the hundreds now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of all the reasons for bot services to exist, I think this one is at least a net neutral. At least this way they're not pushing a political agenda, or trying to steal money. They're just tryna get a job.

Ima start starring things that help. I had no idea it was anything more than a popularity contest for this sort of thing.

[–] Caboose12000 3 points 3 days ago

as with everything these days, there is unfortuntly a pretty big downside to github stars being so easy to buy: bad actors can now post malicious code and immidiatly buy thousands of stars making it look like thier code has been approved by thousands of people.

since its a big task for many people to directly read the code of the Foss apps they install, github stars are how a lot of people judge a projects validity, so it's still a bad thing to have fake stars