The DevRel influencer trend
Divya Mohan
Open Source Community @ SUSE || Community Building & Marketing Strategy || Maintainer @ Kubernetes, CHAOSS Asia, and ByteCode Alliance || KubeCon India chair
Note: This has been crossposted from my Medium blog. The link to it is provided below.
A worrying trend in the industry has been on the rise for quite some time — the merger of what used to be developer relations and what we know as social media influencers into one blob, the DevRel influencer.
Disclaimer: This is not to diss either side or trash people from one side trying to do the other. I’m not against people earning money.
That being said, what I am against is bad actors spreading misinformation and spoiling it not only for the folks who are part of this industry but for those who are new to it.
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Software & Systems Engineer
1yI have the same feeling. It's a worrysome trend, pushed by the competition for attention. There are some common words like "developer", "community" tainted on each slogan targeting tech people. I Hope we can steer it up on time.