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I just recently made my github activities private, also blocked part of the github UI (for example achievements, profile avatars), and removed all my stars from repositories and instead made a 'repos' bookmarks folder to put interesting projects in. (I do the same for many platforms, in the sense of bookmarking stuff instead of using platform-built-in features to 'save' something - what an illusionary save as well...).

I don't want to be locked in, I also don't want to be manipulated by shiny virtual crap. Activities also is such a poor metric. On many days I have simply one commit, because it's a night of programming followed by one push to the repo... friend of mine wrote a script that makes one-line changes to a file and pushes regularly, so his activity chart looks great... (his first idea was to have it spell something out)

The trend with github seems obvious, it'll be a linkedin dev-hiring social media crap-platform people stay on for visibility and many developers eventually won't know how to use git outside of it... (and we hear the cries of "I'd like to contribute but it's not on github..." and some projects will see it as a feature of being not on github to keep those kind of people away).

So many things are going to sh*t... and people like it, which is the worst. sourcehut.org is a nice alternative (I have an account). I also wish more people would just host their own gitea instances.