Kuketz-Blog 🛡Apr 12

Ich bin dem offiziellen GrapheneOS-Konto gerade entfolgt – nicht, weil ich das Projekt nicht schätze. Im Gegenteil: GrapheneOS ist im Bereich mobiler Sicherheit/Privacy weiterhin die beste Option.

Was mich stört, sind die ständigen Seitenhiebe auf /e/OS, CalyxOS und andere Custom-ROMs - auch wenn die Kritik völlig legitim ist. Aber ich folge dem Account, um etwas über GrapheneOS zu lesen, nicht um regelmäßig zu erfahren, was andere in den Sand setzen. Wer ein starkes Projekt hat, sollte es für sich sprechen lassen.

#GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy

/kuk

Show threadGrapheneOSApr 12

@kuketzblog LineageOS is by far the most used alternative mobile OS and yet we don't have threads on our timeline about it. That's because LineageOS as an organization isn't misleading people about GrapheneOS and trying to harm us.

/e/ and their supporters are engaging in concerted efforts to mislead people about GrapheneOS and cause personal harm to our team. Each of our threads about it has been made to provide accurate information in response to their inaccurate claims about GrapheneOS.

Show threadKuketz-Blog 🛡Apr 12

@GrapheneOS I’m aware of the situation, and I understand why you respond to it.

From my perspective, though, it would be better to put all of this into a dedicated blog post, FAQ, or similar resource people can refer to when needed. That would keep the information available without bringing the same broader conflict back to the main timeline again and again.

Personally, I mainly follow the account for updates about GrapheneOS itself. That is what I value most. The surrounding disputes may deserve a response too, but I think they would be better handled separately from the regular project communication.

I mean this constructively. I appreciate GrapheneOS and the work behind it. I would simply prefer the main account to focus more on GrapheneOS itself.

Show threadshadowwwindApr 12
@kuketzblog @GrapheneOS agree, everytime my feed gets flooded by a post chain with these things I consider to unfollow.
However using just the RSS feed to follow updates doesn't really work for me because I don't want to read through all the internal and small changes. However things like the RCS update and network location I don't want to miss.
Show threadshadowwwindApr 12

@kuketzblog @GrapheneOS and I follow your account because I care and want to see posts about GrapheneOS. If I would want to know thinks about e/OS i would go look for that.

Btw I also don't think e/OS is worth so much of your attention.

Show threadGrapheneOSApr 12
@shadowwwind @kuketzblog The level to which people have been misled across platforms about GrapheneOS is extreme. People widely believe and propagate the incorrect claims that it's not a privacy project, not usable by regular people, only useful to people targeted by sophisticated attacks and much more. /e/ and Murena are currently the main source of these claims which has been the case for a while now. Their business model is predicated on convincing people there aren't better options.
Show threadGrapheneOSApr 12

@shadowwwind @kuketzblog If someone isn't outraged about providing closer to reasonable privacy and security being portrayed as primarily useful to pedophiles, criminals and spies then they were never our target audience.

Our posts are well received on Bluesky and X. It seems the main issue here is people are using clients poorly displaying threads where each of our posts shows up in their feed separately instead of as a single thread. We can patch in long post support to Mastodon instead.

Show threadshadowwwindApr 12

@GrapheneOS @kuketzblog neither of us ever questioned the situation. Both of us are aware of it.
Again, I follow your account to learn about GrapheneOS. I couldnt care less about murena or e/OS.

Outrage excels on X so that isn't surprising.

Also the client thing doesn't really matter. However I am starting to associate your account with posts with negative topics. I am starting to expect that I get annoyed when reading your posts. Annoyed about e/OS, yes.

Show threadshadowwwind
@GrapheneOS But it makes me want to avoid your account because, I don't need negativity in my feed. And I don't care about e/OS. Let them be shit. Tell my why GrapheneOS is great.
Apr 12 at 6:43pmWeb
Show threadshadowwwindApr 12
@GrapheneOS and considering, that there is no such thing as bad publicity, you also need to evaluate, if responding to them at all is worth the attention you give them by it.
And if your time spend writing critiques of Murena could be better spend creating good publicity for GrapheneOS.
By responding to Murena you don't gain publicity yourselves.