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by ramesh31 57 days ago
>Can anyone explain why on earth VC's are making actual investment decisions based on imaginary internet points?

Github stars used to really mean something. Having 1k+ was considered a stable, mature library being used in prod by thousands of people. At 10k+ you were a top level open source project. Now they've been gamed by the dead internet just like everything else, and it's depressing as hell.