If you are well known in your field, you don't need peer review. People will read your preprints, invite you to conferences, and follow you on your preferred pl

If you are well known in your field, you don't need peer review. People will read your preprints, invite you to conferences, and follow you on your preferred platforms anyway. If you are in a well-known project, people will pay attention to your work, even if you are not famous yourself. For everyone else, there is peer review. Attention economy is unforgiving and benefits the elite. With peer review, everyone's work gets at least a minimum level of attention. Which may then lead to more attention if the work is worth it. Every serious proposal for replacing the current peer review practices must have the same feature. When someone submits new work, there must be people who have to review it. Fully voluntary reviews don't work.