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I don't think there's anything "special" here. You have the same problem currently where finding the canonical location of a repository is done via some out-of-band social network or website.

On GitHub, you also can look at the stars to give you extra confidence, and on Radicle the equivalent is the seed count for a given repository.

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Then why does the documentation say this is "important"? GitHub certainly does not have a notice anywhere saying "it's important to only publish repositories you own or are a maintainer of" (...well, I guess it could be buried deep in some user guide I never read, lol).

I think it's currently more likely to happen on Radicle given there is no search or discovery functionality, and repositories exist on a flat hierarchy, ie. they are not namespaced by user/org name, so harder to distinguish if they share the same name and description.

Why are those items not included? Being able to browse one org/developer's repos is a very useful indicator when investigating a new unknown repo/project/org/person, trying to determine if the risk of time investment is worth the effort.

Maybe Kagi could add this to their custom index.

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