to this day i'm not clear on why people follow people on GitHub, generally. like i follow my dad because you never know what he's gonna push up there, so maybe it's the "let's see what happens next" energy?
i normally follow people i know personally (for the same reason), but also follow high profile people from the ecosystem - the feed shows if they create a new project, star a project (can find out about something before it trends), a repo's stars view has a tab for people i follow.
the op's about people who follow randomly, to get follow backs, and unfollow you if you don't. that's weird behavior that existed for ages in other platforms, e.g. soundcloud, but really doesn't make any sense in this context.
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