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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by minyaen@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@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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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 week ago

What is Twidium's deal? They are the most expensive and take the longest.

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 week ago

Obviously their stars are the bestest

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 6 days ago

I think you're joking, but if their accounts dont get banned immediately and the stars removed a week after you pay, then their stars are actually the bestest

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There's a chance their stars take so long because they might be using click farms to manually generate them which would be harder for spam detection to catch compared to generating stars with bots and hacked accounts, since technically there are actually x many people actually giving you stars, they're just being paid to do so.