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> Now it's side-project X from reknowned developer N, or the newly created repo from some known tech firm that somehow has 100 stars already.

"Trending" on social sites always seems to translate to, "here is popular thing that should become more popular because it's already popular."

The extreme preference for externally mediated measures of status never fails to amuse me.




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