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No, not at all a conflict of interest.
Literally nothing at all, by definition, is a conflict of interest.
I don't particularly 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.
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.
Sure, that's not to dismiss the valuable work and high effort you're putting in to having these conversations that otherwise wouldn't happen.