• freely1333@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      24 hours ago

      Because the person who makes it gets touchy on some things and started drama with someone or doxxed them or whatever type deal. It’s not like you can’t talk about it you just can’t use the word because he was going through and being weird about conversations about it. It’s nothing against him or them it’s just one of those developers being a unique type of person - which makes sense in the hyper privacy space.

      • RobotToaster@mander.xyzOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        9 hours ago

        He’s certainly “unique”.

        I feel like he only gets away with it because people find the Dev of a privacy OS being incredibly paranoid somewhat reassuring…

        • communism@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          3 hours ago

          He gets away with it because he makes a high quality OS that people want to use. I don’t see it as much worse than e.g. using Linux when Torvalds is kind of an asshole.

        • FatherPeanut@pawb.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          4 hours ago

          Pretty sure that is it. A lotta people in response to seeing him decry certain technologies tend to say, “that uncompromising nature on privacy is why GrapheneOS holds up so well.” Which I gotta be real when I say that it really does make me feel more comfortable with GrapheneOS’ development. I can’t keep up with all news on it, I’m not wanting to completely audit all the source code, but having a development team led by someone like that does bring a sense of ease toward my phone.