Most of our users aren’t active on these social media platforms and don’t receive news about GrapheneOS beyond our release notes. Hundreds of thousands of people use it as a daily driver without closely following the project. We plan to reduce our dependence on these platforms.
We’ll be extending our Info app with a News section. It can have configurable categories so people only see the parts which interest them. We could also use the Info app to provide a way for people to volunteer to help us with categories of tasks and receive alerts about those.
We can migrate towards posting longer form content made available via our discussion forum and Info app. It can still be posted to these platforms but without relying on them so much. Our news posts don’t reach most of our users this way and it heavily limits how we can post too.
We aren’t saying we’re going to stop posting on these platforms. It means the posts on our timeline will shift towards being links to forum threads with longer form content. We can have proper formatting, edits and a more unified discussion primarily happening on our forum.
When can I buy the Motorolla with preinstalled GrapheneOS?
They should be available sometime in 2027
also looking forward to that one!
You won’t. But you will be able to buy a moto that meets the hardware requirements and has a bootloader you can unlock.
Sad. That way a third “free” option will never happen. You and I could maybe do it, but 99.9% of users just want shit that works out of the box day 1 they open the chase.
And relock, right?
Always.
And will it hopefully support some sort of tap and pay in the US?
We’ve been here before. “You can only receive news on a platform of my choosing” is not a realistic comms strategy.
Sounds like they’re still going to use other socials, just move towards primarily hosting long-form content on their forum. Seems fine for people who use any given platform (that gOS already supports) to keep on keeping on.
Also helps that they include the Info app with every base install.
Why not simply use Mastodon/lemmy? Unless you feel the need to control the communication and intentionally defederate from other servers, the Fediverse should be fine?
