Of all the reasons for bot services to exist, I think this one is at least a net neutral. At least this way they’re not pushing a political agenda, or trying to steal money. They’re just tryna get a job.
Ima start starring things that help. I had no idea it was anything more than a popularity contest for this sort of thing.
as with everything these days, there is unfortuntly a pretty big downside to github stars being so easy to buy: bad actors can now post malicious code and immidiatly buy thousands of stars making it look like thier code has been approved by thousands of people.
since its a big task for many people to directly read the code of the Foss apps they install, github stars are how a lot of people judge a projects validity, so it’s still a bad thing to have fake stars
![Stars are helpful for finding jobs[GitHub]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8fa2e04c-b3e9-472d-8ced-46fcafa9b015.jpeg){kind=link}
This in turn caused a market for bot stars to spring up. You can buy stars by the hundreds now.
Of all the reasons for bot services to exist, I think this one is at least a net neutral. At least this way they’re not pushing a political agenda, or trying to steal money. They’re just tryna get a job.
Ima start starring things that help. I had no idea it was anything more than a popularity contest for this sort of thing.
as with everything these days, there is unfortuntly a pretty big downside to github stars being so easy to buy: bad actors can now post malicious code and immidiatly buy thousands of stars making it look like thier code has been approved by thousands of people.
since its a big task for many people to directly read the code of the Foss apps they install, github stars are how a lot of people judge a projects validity, so it’s still a bad thing to have fake stars