"the GrapheneOS developers do not wish to use reddit as a platform to discuss their products"

No one is making them. But they can't prohibit others from doing so. Also the mods don't give a fuck. What an idiotic excuse.

The only thing to post on reddit, is that Lemmy is better

Am I missing something here?

Yeah, it's reddit, expect nonsense.

I can't remember any time in the last 2 years before I deleted my reddit account where a post I made didn't get auto-moderated.

I kinda get why the GrapheneOS developers don't want their product discussed on reddit: Imagine you're searching for a problem with GrapheneOS and the only thing popping up is a Reddit thread. They don't want their users having to go there as the "only" option to get their problem fixed

Google is a Reddit partner now, so they probably don't want discussion of anything that removes them from the loop, thus privacy is very limited to "privacy from everyone but Google" or whatever corporate blob is currently funding Reddit. This is why Reddit is dead to me, basically it is now all about profit and communities can only exist if they contribute to that goal.

Doesn't the message you received basically say the graphene devs don't want it discussed in /r/privacy ?

If I were involved in a project with any sort of following I wouldn't want it discussed in a large, general, subreddit either. If it is, you either need to engage with people there to minimise any misinformation, or you just have to let people spread nonsense about your product.

That said, asking why /r/privacy exists when the devs of privacy-related projects don't want to participate is a good question. The answer is, the mods are fief lords who would rather preside over a sham than nothing at all.

Honestly, I can't think of any good reason to be a moderator of /r/privacy on reddit

Reddit moment

I mean it's reddit. Example: I used to get on there from time to time, I'm fairly involved in homelessness services. Almost every time someone gets on there asking for help with food and I send them a link to food kitchens, food banks and other actual social services they can use to get themselves back on their feet, it gets pulled with an explanation of something like "well, we were just hoping for general advice not anything practical" from whatever mod removes the comment. I have some opinions on that.

It's less to do with your comments, more to do with the platform and the specific mods

I got perma-banned and modmail-muted for talking about the rule, not the OS itself. The moderators are a bunch of absolute fucks and don't give a single shit either. I did not break the rule, but got perma-banned. Then got perma-banned from Reddit for "ban evasion" because I messaged the moderators about my wrongful subreddit ban. My appeal was denied. Fuck em.

Let's talk about privacy, just not any private operating systems because there's a sub for that, or laws that threaten privacy because there's a sub for that, or any corporations that try to take away people's privacy because there's a sub for that, or our opinions on the concept of privacy because there's a sub for that so... privacy is, uh, not having people see what you're doing kinda.

reddit = garbage , thats all this is

Eh, I get the rule. On the surface, it seems stupid because the subject of rom options is pretty integral to privacy

However, discussion of roms tends to always devolve into what amounts to fanboyism at some point. You end up with a lot of "yeah, but" and "but they are/aren't" that covers the same ground every single time, and users have to wade through the bullshit to get to anything useful.

It's the same conversation every time, so you reach a point where it's better to just outright ban rom/os so that other issues aren't drowned by that.

It's damned if you don't damned if you do, there's no good choice, so you make the choice that's less hassle on average

Glad I deleted my account last week.

That's what happens when something grows too much, at some point moderation is impossible and rules start with one intention but turn into the absurd.

Reddit purged their volunteer mod base for exactly this reason. Some company asks them to change moderation to accommodate them, reddit complies without having to deal with pesky, independent human mods who might argue against the censorship.

I have heard of drama involving Graphene OS. I just know there is some drama involving GrapheneOS, I dont know who did what or care who said what, maby its related to that?

Downvoted. You didn't read the rules of the sub. Yes, you should be allowed to do it, morally speaking. But if you red their notice you'll realise exactly why you aren't allowed to do so. Anyway welcome to Lemmy

Just ignore Reddit. Pretend it doesn't even exist. It'll go the way of Digg soon enough.

Is there a lot of drama between mobile OS developers? I'm not really in those circles, I had no idea.

Recently there was a discussion about an r/privacy mod, carrotcypher. they have been mod on that sub since before the reddit exodus but they are making very strange decisions, to put it lightly. maybe this is their work too

To be honest, the explanation given in the screenshot makes sense. Whilst it's frustrating, if the mods have had past problems with arguments over OSes (and there are dedicated subs for them), I can somewhat understand the reason for the rule.