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[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 22 hours ago

GitHub always claimed to be some kind of social network, their initial slogan was "social coding".

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I always interpreted that to be in an open source sharing code kinda social projects for the betterment of everyone. What it became was people spamming PRs to get minor fixes or merged to pad their resume. Showing contribution heat maps like its a an extension of your resume or getting achievements like it's a video game.

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