I was posting some comments on Reddit, in the “Privacy” subreddit, about better privacy options than Android or iOS—like GrapheneOS. I just received a message from the bot deleting my posts that mentioned GrapheneOS or other privacy-friendly operating systems. I accept this, since I’m not the owner of the subreddit. But with all due respect, what’s the point of having a place to discuss privacy if comments recommending great privacy-focused OS alternatives get deleted? I don’t get it.
It seems like people in that community want privacy, but apparently not enough to have an open discussion about alternatives. Sure, some people might disagree—that’s normal in any discussion! Should we stop talking about the NSA because some people support what they do? I doubt anyone would suggest that.
Am I missing something here? Maybe I just don’t understand the reasoning.
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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
What I’ve seen there within the post about Graphene OS moving away from Reddit, is not wanting to be on Reddit with their own community, as the rules of the platform means that they are getting a lot of removals, blocks and things like that, so they moved their own community, but that doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t talk about graphene. That’s a huge difference, as a lot of people get to know this software reading about them on blogs, posts and Reddit. We need to encourage healthy conversations, even if we don’t agree with the topic, but removing everything… Damm
Yeah this is a based af reason for comment removal
rogue has bad reading comprehension, the rule is not only about graphene, and that’s not even what it even says about graphene
It says “GrapheneOS developers do not wish to use reddit as a platform to discuss their products”. What do you not understand about this?
you should perhaps find a little energy and read the whole message. especially the paragraph that starts with “Discussion”. because that paragraph is the rule. what do you not understand about this?
Posts from Lemmy do come up with searching, at least on DDG, so the best thing people can do is stop adding reddit at the end of a parameter and start adding lemmy
Or start adding “-site:reddit.com”. On the other hand, in some cases it kinda makes sense with SEO being basically “generate a wall of text on what should be one paragraph with 3.5 sentences”.
Unfortunately a lot of instances do not have “lemmy” in their name, which makes this web searching significantly more difficult
They don’t like platforms where they can’t censor dissent. Thats the reason they dont like Reddit.
What are you sniffing? There’s no more pro censorship platform then Reddit. Lemmy at least keeps a mod log.
You misread my comment. Try again
No, what you wrote sucks any way you slice it. You try again.
It’s a .ml user.
lol
Oh. Right.
And how do you interpret what I wrote?