That wasn’t what I meant by false. It was your phrase about the activity of project socials being mischaractered, which I still maintain it is not.
Other companies and projects have a tendency to take criticisms coming from the project as directed attacks.
It really depends what is said and how. As I have said before, and as the original comment you responded to said, the project socials (and community) constantly put down other projects and bring up grapheneOS in any discussion about ROMs. The problem is they seem to lack awareness and often ignore context.
For example, if I mentioned LineageOS as a good option for somebody who wants to degoogle their Samsung phone, you can bet that a grapheneOS maintainer or sympathiser will show up. They will inform everybody how insecure lineageos is, throw a bunch of technical terms around, and finally recommend the purchase of a google pixel and to flash it with grapheneOS. This happens regardless of what the original user says they want (a degoogled Samsung phone), here the question was asked (possibly thread about Samsung phones), what budget the user has (they might not have any to buy a new phone), and so on.
Your comments about them or the community “needing therapy” perpetuates that sentiment
I could call it “making objective criticism” like you call the actions of the grapheneOS maintainers and community. Do you understand now why that argument doesn’t work? To you it may seem objective, but to others it is brigading, unwanted, annoying, and also insulting. Immediately entering every discussion about another ROM with a “that insecure” and “you might as well not have a passcode and hand over everything to Google” is far from the objective arguments you think the maintainers and community are making.
Hopefully it is more understandable now what I (and some others) take issue with. If grapheneOS maintainers and the community could just please stay on topic, make relevant comments, and be more diplomatic, maybe even supportive of other projects, that would improve their image so much…
Thank you for the civil discussion. I hope it can continue.
That wasn’t what I meant by false. It was your phrase about the activity of project socials being mischaractered, which I still maintain it is not.
It really depends what is said and how. As I have said before, and as the original comment you responded to said, the project socials (and community) constantly put down other projects and bring up grapheneOS in any discussion about ROMs. The problem is they seem to lack awareness and often ignore context.
For example, if I mentioned LineageOS as a good option for somebody who wants to degoogle their Samsung phone, you can bet that a grapheneOS maintainer or sympathiser will show up. They will inform everybody how insecure lineageos is, throw a bunch of technical terms around, and finally recommend the purchase of a google pixel and to flash it with grapheneOS. This happens regardless of what the original user says they want (a degoogled Samsung phone), here the question was asked (possibly thread about Samsung phones), what budget the user has (they might not have any to buy a new phone), and so on.
I could call it “making objective criticism” like you call the actions of the grapheneOS maintainers and community. Do you understand now why that argument doesn’t work? To you it may seem objective, but to others it is brigading, unwanted, annoying, and also insulting. Immediately entering every discussion about another ROM with a “that insecure” and “you might as well not have a passcode and hand over everything to Google” is far from the objective arguments you think the maintainers and community are making.
Hopefully it is more understandable now what I (and some others) take issue with. If grapheneOS maintainers and the community could just please stay on topic, make relevant comments, and be more diplomatic, maybe even supportive of other projects, that would improve their image so much…
🙏 Thank you too.
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