GrapheneOS accuses YC of funding surveillance and enabling HN harassment

smallerize 1 day ago|

Posts also available on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mzm2j56ws22q

verdverm 1 day ago||

Over the years, HN has definitely seen an increase in idealogical group activity (low quality comments and voting/flagging), but I'm not inclined to believe dang and tomhow are putting their thumbs on the scale. HN remains a gem from the community moderation and the mod's largely hands off approach.

YC on the other hand has become a red flag for me. I agree with the critique of the companies they are funding, and would add that they tried to scale things that don't scale - enlarging class size and mentor load (like our public education system) - and it has had the same outcomes.

user_7832 1 day ago||

gnabgib 1 day ago|

Probably this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50386196

beansovertoast 1 day ago|

Despite all the evidence showing this to be true, I refuse to believe it.

I post this from my shadow banned account of course - shadow banned with no warning or explanation.

anenefan 20 hours ago|

I only viewed the bluesky page's source code and looking at comment text, didn't run into what I consider evidence.

I've not witnessed the mods weighing any discussions on GrapheneOS. Disclaimer, I was given a phone that boots to GrapheneOs - it's a pixel 3 so just good for data / downloading here in Australia.

I think GrapheneOs is just caught up with those interests that are farming personal data. What GrapheneOS aims to do is protect a person's privacy ... and one thing I've watched blow up since about 2010 is the rise and march of anonyphobes. One doesn't have to have GrapheneOS to watch some platform trying to harvest PII and yet more PII go batshit and deny access or content for some stupid reason - among the more amusing is displaying the site as expected and then yanking it with a message that device is banned or browser is not compatible.

P.S. Shadow ban is more probable an algorithm which is picking up snarky demeanour ... or submitted topics broadly over a few submissions coming back to one of HN's uncomfortable areas. (If such exists)