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> Github has always been a social tool without the need for a newsfeed-type thing.

GitHub has always had various activity feeds. Here are two early screenshots from 2008:

> Project and Developer News Feeds - Keep tabs on your favorite projects and the people that work on them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081113115832/http://github.com...

> Public Developer Profiles - See what other developers are working on and how many commits they've made

https://web.archive.org/web/20081113115936/http://github.com...

From https://web.archive.org/web/20081111061111/http://github.com...

Are any of those algorithmically selected? If not, then my argument stands.

Sure, the one sentence you picked, taken out of context, makes it look like I'm generally against feeds. When you put it in the broad context of my comment though, you can easily see that it's the AI bit that's the problem.

The other sentence in your comment was:

> I think the issue is not with it being social in general, but rather with it becoming a similar flavour of social to the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc.

I'm sorry I didn't understand you were using "flavour" to indicate AI, I just thought you were referencing social features in general, it wasn't that clear to me, sorry for that.

Yeah, that's cool. I guess I could have been more precise in my phrasing.

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