I totally get where you're coming from, but I follow people on GitHub exclusively because I want to see what code they're working on.

I'm not following them because we have reciprocal social arrangement where we're "friends", or because I want to chit-chat with them, or see what they're eating, or what asinine 280 character fragments of streams of consciousness that they emit into the void, or to participate in the typical "best foot forward" profile stalking and preening BS that I can't stand about social media.

GitHub is a social network, no doubt, but it is not social media and I hope that does not change.