I've come to the conclusion that I don't like GitHub. No, not the website or the company, but the idea itself. "Social coding", the thing that has been its tagline. And no, not even the social part, but everything that we've come to accept as part of the "social" whenever we encounter other social things, like social networks. The vanity stuff, in particular.
You see, some of my projects get recognition, and that makes me feel good. My lizard brain takes it as validation, and concludes that for the brief moment following the seeing of a new "star" or "follow", I actually matter. I make a difference in the world. People like what I do. And this is great.
But then on the flip side, the vast majority of my projects get no stars or recognition at all. This, then, makes me feel bad. Am I not making good enough software? Am I even a good programmer? Maybe people just don't like me? And this is not great.
Maybe I'm just too sensitive to the subconscious mind programming of the modern world, but I'd rather not have any of this at all. Ultimately I make my projects because I want to make them. I make them because they are useful to me, and I wouldn't care if anyone even knows about my existence if it were not for all the indications showing me constantly if they do or not.