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    • 5 months

      They are indicative of something. That something is just not always “this project is good”.

    • 5 months

      Correct: it’s like trying to equate “correct” with “popular”, and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.

      But it’s good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.

      • 5 months

        You can just buy them, same way you can buy likes on any other platform. Don’t use them as any kind of metric.

        • 5 months

          You can but if you buy 80k people are gonna investigate and will easily find out you did. Stars are public. I have a folder on my computer with a dataset of 90% of all stars on github