GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy by noosphr on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:44AM (#47832123)

There was a time when total number of hyperlinks to a site was an amazing metric measuring its quality.

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Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy by embedding-shape on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:12AM (#47832684)

Yeah, the time between Google appeared, until the time SEO became a concept people chased, a very brief moment of time.

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Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy by kang on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:31AM (#47832402)

at that time having a website took work, while having a github account can be cheaply used to sybil attack/signal marketing

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Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy by noosphr on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:15PM (#47840890)

Forums, news groups and mailing lists counted towards pagerank in the early days.

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