@alextecplayz@maltfield
GrapheneOS has a team of more than 10 people, the project account is a joint account. Many people can use it, we can’t know whether this was one person or another.
Eskuero didn’t seem to post their toot to “express cocern”. They initially seemed to post it in defense of the content of Robert Braxman, who published his video much later than the screenshotted message from the GrapheneOS chat rooms. By that time, the message already was followed up by other messages and it became clear the situation had already improved. I’m sure the conversation with Eskuero would’ve gone much different if they had directly raised any concerns they had instead of using an oudated message of the GrapheneOS project as an excuse for the content of Robert Braxman, who routinely pushes misinformation about multiple open source projects. As a regular community member, mainly active in the chatrooms, I can confirm the GrapheneOS project (members) get(s) very regularly harassed and (personally) attacked. In that context, it makes sense that they doubt the good intentions of some people and that they might use (sometimes imperfect) heurstics to try to make sense of these intentions.
I can agree that the tone of the initial message was quite dramatic though. It was meant to convey frustration because the GrapheneOS project had been asking for community help for weeks and not received it, they felt that the community had been apathic because people with ties within the Android ecosystem could’ve helped them more to receive access to the partner program source code. They quickly followed up those messages with more nuance and additional explanations about what the way forward would be. Robert Braxman had all that context already when he made his video claiming GrapheneOS was dying, so there was no reason to make that statement anymore.
@alextecplayz @maltfield
GrapheneOS has a team of more than 10 people, the project account is a joint account. Many people can use it, we can’t know whether this was one person or another.
Eskuero didn’t seem to post their toot to “express cocern”. They initially seemed to post it in defense of the content of Robert Braxman, who published his video much later than the screenshotted message from the GrapheneOS chat rooms. By that time, the message already was followed up by other messages and it became clear the situation had already improved. I’m sure the conversation with Eskuero would’ve gone much different if they had directly raised any concerns they had instead of using an oudated message of the GrapheneOS project as an excuse for the content of Robert Braxman, who routinely pushes misinformation about multiple open source projects. As a regular community member, mainly active in the chatrooms, I can confirm the GrapheneOS project (members) get(s) very regularly harassed and (personally) attacked. In that context, it makes sense that they doubt the good intentions of some people and that they might use (sometimes imperfect) heurstics to try to make sense of these intentions.
I can agree that the tone of the initial message was quite dramatic though. It was meant to convey frustration because the GrapheneOS project had been asking for community help for weeks and not received it, they felt that the community had been apathic because people with ties within the Android ecosystem could’ve helped them more to receive access to the partner program source code. They quickly followed up those messages with more nuance and additional explanations about what the way forward would be. Robert Braxman had all that context already when he made his video claiming GrapheneOS was dying, so there was no reason to make that statement anymore.