From what I understand, it gives you nothing for anything that is signed and that does not have a direct link to a github account. Obviously, if someone releases software on that github account and I find a signed release of that software, I can validate that it really was signed by the official source of that software on github. For anything that does not have that direct link, it really does not give you anything.
I've never used PGP, but I thought the web of trust was used to validate metadata on the key and that this can be used to validate that a key really belongs to the person that you think it belongs to. I saw it more like how you have SSL certificates with different degrees of validation and where you must deliver more proof of your identity if you want to receive a certification with a higher degree of validation.
I'm all for using SSH keys for signing, but I still would like to have something like PGP's web of trust for those keys.