Whenever I see a project that is clearly a fork of another project but doesn't show as such, I assumed, the devs were trying to hide the fact but GitHub is even incentivizing this and providing tools to make a fork "independent".

I thought they should treat a project as a fork of another even if I don't hit that fork button, merely based on the same initial git hash but that's not how GitHub works. And they punish you if you show your project as a fork of another by not counting commits to your project as commits the devs did.

https://i.nostr.build/CvdcW93zaMjewTVo.png