I don't know what controversy we're involved in, but we're happy to be here!
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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Bro you really going to go around and continue this fight? Like I get you're upset, you have a right to be, but no need to harass the guy.
Privacy guides is great, they indirectly helped me degoogle my phone and make my laptop much more secure.
I'm happy to see them come over and try Lemmy. Not only because it's content I check in on, but it's a good way to expose others to the concepts behind Lemmy and give them a potential starting place finding a home and start discovering.
PrivacyGuides is one of the most harmful groups out there as far as their moderation goes. Its head Jonah (admin of lemmy.one instance created for PrivacyGuides) stole off $10000 ($17,500 in all) PrivacyTools.io donations and put it into his private account, they seized PTIO subreddit which is locked to this day, they made a malicious GrapheneOS figurehead Tommy a moderator immediately after he published a faux hitpiece on me (which trended on PG for a month), and they protect toxic GrapheneOS devs/mods fervently to promote Google and Apple (mods/heads all are American/Canadian nationalists).
https://www.privacytools.io/guides/jonah-aragon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover
You can find more here, and upon reading comments in here. He purposely evades and silences all criticism on reddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/u_lo________________ol/comments/1314x2x/why_did_i_do_this/ji5l5uz?context=300
I have critiqued them for the past 2 years, and shared what I documented here few days ago. They are busy with vote manipulation on my posts shared both on c/privatelife and c/privacy. I am sure recently people know of GrapheneOS dev's incident with Louis Rossmann.
Moreover, someone shared my critique writeup on their lemmy.one instance, where they removed my writeup immediately, have disabled downvoting (a form of evading criticisms), and have blocked/defederated Lemmygrad.ml instance as well, calling its users "liberals". All in the span of one day.
Please avoid celebrating every entity recognising Lemmy, and focus on organic growth with welcoming good people, not malicious people like this who shelter more malicious trolls. Many PrivacyGuides members often call me "chinese commie", that is how bad they can be towards people.
Oh wow, look at that: They did deactivate downvoting... Well, there are still ways to downvote but I guess if it is hidden on the web it serves their purpose. You're not the only critic.