You learn after a while that most complaints are either projection or astroturfing. This community is a threat to the network of shill blogs and YouTubers that are paid for and owned by shit VPN companies and other scummy people trying to sell something.
There’s a strange phenomenon on Reddit on the internet lately, where people appear to think discussing a topic is equivalent to praising it. It’s hard to imagine anyone here believing Privacy Guides is a “super toxic apple circle jerk” if they actually read the discussions, but the mere mention of new Apple security features or the existence of iOS configuration guides surely must mean we want everyone to buy an iPhone, right? Daniel Micay & the GrapheneOS moderators in particular have been trying to push this narrative for years now, that Privacy Guides is going to randomly change all of our recommendations to iPhone only any second now, because he has some grudge. Why on Earth would we do that? Proprietary operating systems are not the future of mobile privacy.
The reality is that in my view, everything gets praise and criticism here exactly as they deserve, simple as that.
The fact that we are having a normal discussion here while the Redditors there complain about “people on the internet” in general and very unspecific complaints about this forum is proof enough to me that this forum is perfectly fine. If they actually bothered to participate here they would find that out pretty quickly. I think this is hands down the best place for newcomers to learn about privacy rights 