will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:
it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet
flipside, I guess, is that we’ll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can’t scale
even way before the Microsoft acquisition, a bunch of folks in my industry very foolishly saw GitHub as essentially code-driven LinkedIn. the idea that interacting on github could get you hired is why there are so many github accounts that have a shit-ton of achievements and forked repos, but if you dig in you’ll see that their open source contributions have been minor or generally negative (IE opening worthless PRs). taken as a whole, github is a massive boat anchor for the open source projects that rely on it — and whatever benefit they’ve gained from greedy drive-by contributors is likely to dry up soon, as a lot of those accounts have switched to spewing out cookie cutter AI code, which GitHub itself incentivizes
Bit of a tangent from your point but have you seen the recent spate of products that get “released” with a GitHub link, but the gh project itself is literally nothing but a branding landing area?
It irks me. I can’t be sure of their motivations as I haven’t asked why they’re doing it, but it strikes me as folks trying to have the reader/viewer make a false assumption (by way of proxy association)