It's not - socializing with programmers is why I'm on Hacker News. But, socializing isn't what Github should be about. Github should be about development, first and foremost. Having issues and comments support pointless features like emoji and voting and images (and image memes) dilutes the focus of the site and moves it towards being just another forum.

Also, having Github act as a social network injects trolling, politics and drama into the development environment, and I believe development should be apolitical and acultural. I dread the (extremely unlikely) prospect of publishing a project to Github that actually becomes popular and accepting a PR from someone whose political views I may personally despise, but whose code is acceptable, or the backlash if I don't abide by a particular Code of Conduct. Not everyone wants to deal with the cesspool that is modern "social coding" or to build a "community" or to have the number of stars on their account validate their resume.

I just want a place to host code and maybe take pull requests and not have to pay for the privilege of having a private repo.