It seems human. It taught me 合影, which seems to be Chinese slang for just wanting to be in the comments. Probably not a coincidence that it's after work time in China.

Really interesting to see Github turn into 4chan for a minute, like GH anons rolling for trips.

In this situation, it means "Hey I have been here and observed this!"

GitHub had always been about social coding from the beginning (e.g., forking and PRing repos)

合影 doesn't sound like any Chinese slang. That is just what "group photo" means.

There have been massive GitHub issue spams recently, including in Microsoft's WSL repository.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/40028

trying to get github to nuke the repo? at a guess.

certainly nothing friendly.

I saw this on restic's main repository the other day.

oh wow, there are like 10 opened every minute. seems spam-y