GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

This account has been posting lies about what GrapheneOS has said and done for the past several days. Those are being widely propagated across this platform. People are being played.

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This is very clearly a lie about what we said about codeberg and they're also lying about us about deleting posts we haven't. In previous threads they lied about us deleting a file we clearly never deleted and similarly lied about many things we said and did.

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GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

@zm Codeberg also banned cryptocurrency which is our primary source of funding and is what we use to send money to nearly everyone on our team. A huge portion of our users are cryptocurrency users. Many of them care about financial privacy and support Monero. We also support financial privacy.

Most of the people attacking us on this platform aren't our users. We aren't being attacked elsewhere. People in our chat rooms oppose the attacks on us and it's only an active topic in the media rooms.

GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Replying to @⁨GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social⁩

Cryptocurrency enables us to reliably pay a team distributed around the world. It has provided the majority of our funding and is how we're able to run GrapheneOS as a non-profit entirely funded by donations. Many other privacy projects also receive the majority of their donations via cryptocurrency.

We're being attacked because we're transparent about how we're funded, how we pay our team and our general belief in technology protecting people from authoritarian states.

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GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

@darkwolf GrapheneOS is an open source privacy project with a development team spread around the world. It exists to protect people from corporate and government surveillance.

GrapheneOS isn't a business and our legal entity is a Canadian non-profit organization.

GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. The majority of the donations are made via cryptocurrency.

We pay people an hourly rate set in USD or CAD. We currently pay around 14 people with Ethereum donations and 1 person with CAD.

Xerz 💗@xerz@masfloss.net

Replying to @⁨GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social⁩

@GrapheneOS I can accept some of these arguments, but the core of the issue hasn't been addressed: Codeberg being fine or not with hosting a crypto-funded project

and assuming this is an attack based on your principles and not on e.g. the rejection of hosting at Codeberg is a hell of a take to defend, there's a million reasons for this and I wouldn't bet on that one in particular

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GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Replying to @⁨xerz@masfloss.net⁩

@xerz We never said anything of the kind. We responded to codeberg's policies being brought up as an argument by explaining we disagree with it.

We weren't ever talking about moving to codeberg. We'll move to self-hosting Git long term but that's not the topic. We definitely aren't going to use a platform which bans important privacy projects such as Monero, Zcash and many related things. The topic in that thread wasn't moving to another Git platform or anything like that.