Since fable 5 went down just some time ago(although this is no longer the case), a lot of fable or Mythos related content including models and datasets were completely killed from HF, it seemed like such a blow to the local development community to lose such important files, this is what inspired me to work on my project, it's a p2p decentralized distribution network (aka a torrent site) that pulls files from HF and verifies them through sha256, I've been making slow and steady progress but so far I haven't made a single public post about it. I'm genuinely scared of a number of things happening, that the project won't gain traction, ridicule from more experienced developers, I'm also worried about security vulnerabilities which I'm sure I haven't fully patched yet...

How do I get over this fear of talking about my project? How do I gain stars on GitHub, and community engagement? After all, a decentralized distribution network is nothing without its peers...

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[–] halm@leminal.space 9 points 1 day ago

>so far I haven't made a single public post about it

Well, now you made one. Congratulations.

Maybe you need to look at the reasons you feel unsure about promoting the project. You seem very eager to get stars on Github (and let's not get into the GH situation, nor "AI", nor the fact that your open source project relies heavy on proprietary models).

I'd suggest you ignore the scoring system for the moment, and just write from your original enthusiasm about the project. Leave marketing to corporations that can afford marketers.

Stars and upvotes and likes are addictive metrics, and can have a deleterious effect when they don't show. And yes, stars decide how high you rank on Github (see parenthesis above), but that's for a later stage. It begins with writing the first post — and for that, again, congratulations 🙂