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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The true chef-kiss version of this co-opts generous and hopeful developers into serving as "invited experts", lending an aura of accomplishment and reputational affinity to them, and bringing them into the (artificially exclusive) room where they will feel special.
It takes real guts to stand up and say true things in those venues, and schedules are managed such that there isn't even much opportunity.
And nobody outside will hear if/when they do.
The perfect way to de-fang critique.