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GitHub is explicitly listed as "social media" on the optional question that is on the ESTA [1] form since 2016. If I remember correctly, the wording is relatively broad, so I would guess that HN and Reddit count as well.

[1] https://www.evisaonline.com/en/usa/esta.html




Since when did GitHub stop being a code repository and start becoming a social network? Am I using GitHub wrong?


What do you think commits are?

git commit -m -S “just having my 4th Oreo milkshake haha”


Isn’t GitHub’s motto “social coding” or something similar?


It has stars and accounts, so there is a social aspect


Just an FYI - that website (evisaonline) isn’t an official government site. They seem to be some third party who provide some sort of ESTA application service. The official site is at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/


Thanks, my fault. Just pasted the first link Google returned.


Yeah… so annoying it confused me for a while.




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