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Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings (lemmy.ml)
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This doesn't surprise me at all... Just like bots in games. Selling a service that benefits another. Its shady, but definitely believable.

Also, what if this is an actual viable way to "market" for an open source project?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Programming never needed these sorts of social media features in the first place. Do you part by getting your projects off of Microsoft’s social media platform used to try to sell you Copilot AI & take a cut of your donations to projects with Sponsors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For reference, there is codeberg.org, operated by a German nonprofit and based on the open source Forgejo, among other open alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like hub.darcs.net & smeder.ee myself. Git is overrated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Git is overrated.

That's interesting to read; I wasn't even aware of the existence of Darcs — or any other alternative to git supposedly worth considering, for that matter. Would you elaborate on it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pijul is also worth looking at.

Fundamentally anything with a snapshot-based model is reliant on patch order mattering. As such you always end up with some centralized server. Pijul & Darcs are based on Patch Theory that says if Patch B is applied before or after Patch A assuming there is no conflict or dependence, it should not matter in a communicative way—that is to say the 1 + 2 ≡ 2 + 1. You can avoid a series of conflicts & better support a distibuted/decentralized development model if the order doesn’t matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Federated repo hosting website when?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Radicle can do it presently but a lot folks dismissed them since they worked on cryptocurrency stuff independently. Weird thing to be hung up on considering they were separate endeavors, but folks are fickle.