For those unfamiliar, GrapheneOS is a privacy and security enhanced custom ROM endorsed by Snowden. Despite these big names, plenty of people give it backlash
Even @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml gives it backlash despite being a moderator of Lemmy's biggest privacy community. A quote here: "grapheneOS trolls are downvoting every single post and comment of mine, and committing vote manipulation on Lemmy. They are using 5-6 accounts." That was in response to downvotes on a comment posted in the c/WorldNews community, which is entirely unrelated to technology.
One of the reasons is that GrapheneOS can only be installed on Google Pixels due to security compatibility, which makes complete sense considering Android should be most compatible with Google's own devices. GrapheneOS even lists the exact reasons they chose Pixels, and encourage people to step up and manufacture a different supported device.
One year ago, Louis Rossmann posted this video outlining his reasons for deleting GrapheneOS. Mainly, he had multiple bad experiences with Daniel Micay (the founder and main developer of GrapheneOS) which put his distrust in the GrapheneOS project. Since then, he has stepped down and will no longer be actively contributing to the project.
So, I am here to learn why exactly people still do not like GrapheneOS.
Daniel Micay and the GrapheneOS community are all insane shills. They are against FOSS, and feud with: F-Droid, Mozilla, Calyx Institute, FSF, Linux, Stallman, TechLore.
They shill for proprietary software like Google Play Services compared to MicroG because "IT BREAKS THE ANDROID SECURITY MODEL", F-Droid because "IT BREAKS THE ANDROID SECURITY MODEL", and shill for the Google Play Store (just create a burner Google account bro), Microsoft Windows (because they claim it's safer than Linux because it doesn't force the trusted computing environment) and constantly shit on FOSS projects.
Micay is a schizophrenic twitter and Matrix addict that spends his days on Twitter and on the Matrix room banning people because they are "trolls" (they complain about something that's broken on GrapheneOS, he deletes all the messages and then bans the user) or searching for tweets containing CalyxOS or grapheneos on twitter that don't mention him and DEBUNKING them, specially if it mentions CalyxOS in a good light or gives any criticism to him or his project, proceeded by claiming his community is always being brigaded by Calyx users.
Just search all his tweets (on grapheneos or danielmicay that mention calyx).
The guy has a huge persecution complex that every FOSS project or organization is out to get his project and himself (specially the cryptocurrency trolls, the farms and 4chan), so he's always having a schizo meltdown on twitter.
His matrix room are full of schizos and bots that spend all day shilling for the aformentioned services.
They have a whole matrix channel dedicated to fighting "disinformation" about their OS. When a site mentions their crappy OS the link usually gets posted there and after a few hours threads get flooded by GrapheneOS fanboys shilling their system.
They also love censorship.
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Those things do break the security model though. Theyre right about that.
If you care that much about """security""" just sell your soul to apple. They will take good care of your data and provide world class security. I don't know how even thinking about using google stuff in a foss rom is considered acceptable. You don't need to go full Stallman, but I believe most people here don't want to use google shit for some alleged "security".
Security and privacy are not always aligned.
True, but grapheneos prioritizes security to an absurd level where they say stuff like how the google play store is better than f-droid. Of course this can be true, but there's high chance the entire project is influenced by google.
Now that's a paranoid take lmao