Probably for resale value. Github is a social platform and like the others you can buy stars, followers and co. So maybe to make the bot look genuine/aged account /etc.
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eww....wow didnt think of that. One more reason to maybe get off the platform.
Ive stopped adding my new repos to it and mirror on codeberg and my own personal servers. Its still useful for jobs..ish.
Yes same gitea on my nas and codeberg has backup.
201k followings is insane! I've seen some GitHub account that do this but not to this extent. As to why, I am really not sure. It's not like they'll sell the account like with IG or other places
Pretend you're not a bot I guess?