I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to
It mystifies me how people think Github is important to use for the community. Stars are often cited as a primary reason, presumably so projects can list their star counts on their web pages.To me, the choice of Git repo should be one of the more portable aspects of a project. I know there are hideous lock-in mechanisms like issue lists and wiki discussions, but hopefully someone will standardise them one day into Git objects.