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?
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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Why would it be? Software is good based on it's use and recommendations from real folk, not *s. Many project not on github
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?
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.
It’s frustrating to write something cool that you think others will really benefit from and just never see any adoption, while yet another cookie cutter project has like hundreds of stars.
That’s why I just write super niche things now that only a handful of people will ever even want. This way I can convince myself that the stars don’t matter haha.