Why was I banned from GrapheneOS? That’s a good question.
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| Why I was banned from GrapheneOS by Daniel Micay) |
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Hello everyone, I want to preface this by disclosing that I am part of the GrapheneOS team. My account is not freshly created by the way, since that seems to be such a hot topic here. We asked our community for help with dealing with this mess since the self proclaimed open-source "enthusiast", who is supposedly so eager to help, has gone out of his way to spread this literally all over the internet in order to harm an...open-source project. Here on Lemmy, Mastodon, Reddit, LinkedIn...even Facebook and elsewhere. That's where the "suspicious" new accounts come from. That said, yes you can go ahead and verify they are in fact members of the community. And you can verify mine too if you wish, on the GrapheneOS forum, our reddit, discord, matrix, github. I don't know what else I could tell you on this front honestly.
Now this person filed a duplicate feature request on the issue tracker regarding 3-button navigation. We closed it and provided an explanation on why it’s not wanted, primarily because 3-button navigation is really just a legacy mode and only kept around for compatibility reasons. Any feature that aims to provide a quicker way to force kill apps should be done in a way that’s not specific to it, but can be applied to all navigation modes. I hope this makes sense until here.
About a year later some people picked up on this feature request and started discussing it further. We have a rule where if you want to express your support for something you should react to it with a thumbs up emoji. That’s because each mention and reply sends an e-mail notification to multiple developers. We opted to delete the issue in order to stop the noise. In hindsight yeah that was a mistake, since apparently there are individuals around who are just waiting for an opportunity to act in bad faith as seen here.
This person kept insisting on it and continued to file more issues regarding this matter, even going as far as cloning our repository and continuing the spam there. We repeatedly asked them to stop and take it to dms instead but they didn't do either of these things. Now what they did do is dig this up over a year after our last interaction with them and make a mountain out of a molehill.
There you go, that's the gist of it.