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Re:So, I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, s... by GrygrFlzr on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:47AM (#36151787)
"Instead, ask your colleagues or your community on Twitter why you should pick this project over another. You can also start a new discussion or create an issue on GitHub asking for other people's experiences."

As it gets easier and cheaper to run LLM-based bots, I wonder how long this approach will keep working. Devs in mid-to-large companies should have colleagues they can ask directly, but smaller startups might be vulnerable to being artificially swayed towards specific options.

Re:So, I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, s... by klabb3 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:42AM (#36152747)
Assuming the issues aren’t also hijacked it’s pretty easy to do your own sanity check of a project. Takes no more than a few minutes of archeology in the code and issue tracker.

Also, Twitter has a fomo/cool bias which is really terrible for software imo. Boring is usually better.

Re:So, I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, s... by yCombLinks on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:51AM (#36152887)
I'd rather just do without than having a "community" on twitter.