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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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