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1 follower on GitHub = 1000 followers on other platforms ๐Ÿ˜… (programming.dev)
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[โ€“] Anders429@programming.dev 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't really get why we need social media elements in GitHub at all

[โ€“] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah. I don't know if the 'follow' piece does anything useful for anyone.

But as a professional developer, I have found that my GitHub account now prevents me from getting asked FizzBuzz at interviews. So whichever bit is causing that nonsense to stop, I hope they keep.

[โ€“] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

github โ‰  Social Media

[โ€“] kubica@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

I want to follow commits not tweets.

[โ€“] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Who follows users on GitHub? Repos, branches, issues, PRs, sure. But users?

[โ€“] Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

I follow TodePond because they have funny repos and star weird stuff.

[โ€“] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

I have 13 followers on GitHub. A few are friends from college, the rest I have absolutely no clue why.

[โ€“] jasory@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Some people (like myself and other scientists/mathematicians), write software for specific fields so if you follow them you find it out what work they are putting out, and issues they find in other software etc.

[โ€“] sag@lemy.lol 2 points 7 months ago

I have 21 : () I am pretty famous