Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings(lemmy.ml)

posted 2 months ago

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?

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2 months ago

Amazing. Good thing I don’t use GitHub :)

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