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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Why would it be? Software is good based on it's use and recommendations from real folk, not *s. Many project not on github

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'd argue that the project can be good and not widely used. Do you think that there are projects with real use case and are great open source software and not widely used because its buried under the *s?

It could be a relatively inexpensive way for niche marketing. Especially if the developer has a payment option with the software. Probably a decent way to get the software out in the open for profitability, no?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That is more down to poor marketing. Here on Lemmy or reddit there are big open source communities where you can extol the values of it.

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