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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by stubish on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:22PM (#22315074)
Interesting they are soliciting personalities, rather than infrastructure, sysadmins and others who might have more power to push Handshake. Leaves out a lot of the Great Old Ones too, like say a big hunk of Debian and Ubuntu developers. Or Firefox devs, who have a lot of power here. Lots of projects predate Github. When I looked, I'm honestly surprised how many followers I have there - why would you follow me personally? Rather than the projects? I wouldn't follow me. Seems rather creepy.

Edit: I see elsewhere there have been cash drops to Debian, Arch and probably some other projects. Which makes sense.

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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by SkyMarshal on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:31AM (#22316657)
It’s not soliciting personalities but rather developers who have made things useful to at least 15 other developers, at least on Github.

They also needed exposed public keys to airdrop to, which limited the airdrop to Github and the WoT strong set.

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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by tasuki on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:14AM (#22325930)
> who have made things useful to at least 15 other developers

Then why not look how many stars one's repos have? That seems a much better metric to me.

A friend of mine has hundreds of stars on their repos but only 30 followers. I have around a hundred stars on my repos but only 20 followers. Conversely, I've seen people who are into networking, have a lot of GitHub followers, and no meaningful repos at all.

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