The ideal situation is to eliminate thinking that the thought process for "actually finding" a project == GitHub.

We let Microsoft parasitize our brains with this. The software community has long had alternate forums. GitHub isn't even a particularly good one, and it's recently just become a swamp of generated content, fake stars, and mining your content.

In the last couple months at least once a week I get some LLM generated phishing spam from some bot that "found your projects on GitHub and want to collaborate" etc.

And it's well documented now how you can just go out and "buy" GitHub stars.

Please. Cut the umbilical.