The software is amazing, and is IMO currently beating out the competition in that space. There’s like 4 other apps do just about the same thing, and the beauty of it is that it depends a lot on open source code, so they’re all benifitng from one another.
Not so much a conflict, but “my friend says his software is amazing” comes of as something of a fluff piece.
I imagine he would, yep.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 2 weeks ago
PerfectDark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, not at all a conflict of interest.
Literally nothing at all, by definition, is a conflict of interest.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I don’t particular agree with their conflict of interest comment on the quote, no. I guess it could be said that interviewing individuals that you have a personal relationship with could be a conflict around expectations of unbiased article writing, but this isn’t exactly the New York Times.
PerfectDark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve interviewed something like 50-ish dev teams/sole devs and projects now:
…the list really does go on and on. And yes, I am or have since become friends with each of them. I find it odd that because I am friends, an interview might become somehow less. These are interviews which wouldn’t happen without me doing it. 75% of the ones I have done were with teams who never thought they’d get to share their story, and that’s a big part of why I do them. Too often people forget about those devs who are behind what they use and love so much.
This woudln’t be unbaised article writing regardless. I’m not writing an article. I write an intro, an ‘end’, I write the questions and organize a time when I can chat to the teams. There’s nothing to be unbiased about. At least in my mind. I appreciate what you’re saying, I don’t mean to come off as defensive or anything here, but it really stuck with me - how people here on Lemmy have taken the headline of this article as something which needs to be discounted.
But good point. No, it isn’t. Gardiner and I just run the site as a space where we can write about what we love. For me that is 99% gaming. We haven’t got ads, it runs by community donations (server space etc).
Ugh. Sorry, rant over.