Truth be told I don’t know if I even saved any of my old screen captures of his matrix channel when he started banning anyone asking about performance for sealioning, or when he banned anyone mentioning calyx*, etc etc because by that point it became clear to pretty much everyone that he was not getting better, but thankfully others have documented it well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
Much more recently, example of supporter harassed by Daniel. Obviously he’s taken a turn for the worse here. I admit I find this guy’s recording style weird, but I watched some of his other videos and I think he stands for a lot of the right things.
Third party reseller:
https://privatephoneshop.com/why-we-no-longer-sell-phones-with-grapheneos/
You can argue that reselling phones with the work done for users is bad (I’d disagree, most people are so tech illiterate even the simple graphene install steps are beyond their comfort level) but I think the behavior is clearly toxic.
*Edit: actually I forgot, one of the rounds was being banned just for being part of both the calyx and graphene matrix groups. Like imagine you’re a new user trying to figure out which you like better. One group bans you just for joining the other channel. Yes this is what happened to me.
And then this is him attacking a beloved member of the privacy and security community, csagan (before he had to stop maintaining bromite :( )
https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141
Truth be told I don’t know if I even saved any of my old screen captures of his matrix channel when he started banning anyone asking about performance for sealioning, or when he banned anyone mentioning calyx*, etc etc because by that point it became clear to pretty much everyone that he was not getting better, but thankfully others have documented it well:
The og: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg Pre swatting, during the days of having Reddit brigades downvote anyone asking the wrong types of question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0 Much more recently, example of supporter harassed by Daniel. Obviously he’s taken a turn for the worse here. I admit I find this guy’s recording style weird, but I watched some of his other videos and I think he stands for a lot of the right things.
Third party reseller: https://privatephoneshop.com/why-we-no-longer-sell-phones-with-grapheneos/ You can argue that reselling phones with the work done for users is bad (I’d disagree, most people are so tech illiterate even the simple graphene install steps are beyond their comfort level) but I think the behavior is clearly toxic.
“But didn’t he resign” section is probably what I was remembering. Along with the original post being taken down https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/daniel-micay-publicly-steps-down-as-project-leader-of-grapheneos/12677 (Link at top is dead)
*Edit: actually I forgot, one of the rounds was being banned just for being part of both the calyx and graphene matrix groups. Like imagine you’re a new user trying to figure out which you like better. One group bans you just for joining the other channel. Yes this is what happened to me.
I only skimmed the first bit but this seems good too if you prefer reading to videos https://kiwifarms.st/threads/daniel-micay-strcat-strncat-thestinger-grapheneos.165912/
And then this is him attacking a beloved member of the privacy and security community, csagan (before he had to stop maintaining bromite :( ) https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141
Appreciate the added context. Definitely a lot of history and quite a few red flags.
EDIT:
Oof. Just saw the Louis Rossmann video and yeah, Daniel Micay ruined the projects reputation for me.