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- *GitHub* has lately removed viewing stargazers so what’s the point now.
- lovely code search index. For this alone, I would still use *GitHub* as a mirror if I were to switch out of it.
  - https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/github-code-search/understanding-github-code-search-syntax
- trending gives me massive headaches of unusable software,

## Follows

A user can follow another user. This is a very method to watch specific user activity.

- Issues labeled as “good first issue”.
- Stared repositories.

blocks can remove all interactions. can use “soft blocks” for removing back links from accounts that are very clearly farming for links. I think they call this [[Engagement hacking|engagement hacking]] and it apparently applies to *GitHub*.