@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.

@kuketzblog /e/ has spent years widely propagating inaccurate claims that GrapheneOS isn't a privacy project, doesn't work on privacy, isn't aimed at regular people, isn't usable, isn't compativle with apps, is difficult to install and much more.

/e/ have repeatedly pushed the false claim that GrapheneOS is primarily useful to criminals and that the userbase largely consists of criminals. They've expanded this to claiming security hardening primarily benefits criminals.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116353973732143171

@kuketzblog Legitimate privacy projects and organizations would not push the narrative that privacy and security are primarily beneficial to criminals or that the userbase of projects like GrapheneOS and Signal primarily consists of criminals. This isn't a one time incident but rather a consistent narrative from /e/.

/e/ and Murena laid the groundwork for France's national law enforcement and corporate/state media using the same talking points to attack the GrapheneOS project alongside them.

@kuketzblog Our most important infrastructure for builds and signing has always been on local hardware.

We were concerned about our authoritative DNS, website and other services being hijacked based on direct threats and escalating false narratives of GrapheneOS being for criminals. OVH was previously our main hosting provider and is based in France. OVH directly facilitated those past server takeovers.

We no longer have servers in France or with hosting providers based in France due to this.

@kuketzblog Privacy and security weaknesses are widely abused. GrapheneOS has far more work to do improving both privacy and security to protect people from increasingly widespread violations of their human rights through their computing devices.

/e/ and Murena are heavily pushing the narrative that providing stronger privacy and security beyond avoiding certain apps and services only benefits a tiny group of people. It's divorced from reality and they've aligned themselves aith authoritarians.