Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Github stars are indicative of nothing

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  • smoker@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They are indicative of something. That something is just not always “this project is good”.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Correct: it’s like trying to equate “correct” with “popular”, and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.

    But it’s good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thousands of them are indicative

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can just buy them, same way you can buy likes on any other platform. Don’t use them as any kind of metric.

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      • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You can but if you buy 80k people are gonna investigate and will easily find out you did. Stars are public. I have a folder on my computer with a dataset of 90% of all stars on github

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