Mike Kuketz has never had any role in the GrapheneOS project. He certainly isn't a GrapheneOS developer. He uses GrapheneOS and has a widely known privacy blog and community where he has written about it. That doesn't somehow make him part of GrapheneOS.

https://x.com/CryptoCyberia/status/2065832332313919886

Kuketz hosts a German language forum about privacy at https://kuketz-forum.de/. It's hosted with the widely used open source Discourse project. It has the standard account system and metadata retention of Discourse. Many sites use Discourse and he has nothing to do with making it.

People used Discourse's data export feature to obtain their data from his forum and are upset with Kuketz about how much metadata is retained by Discourse. He didn't make the software but rather is using it so that's already a bit extreme but blaming us is absolutely ridiculous.

GrapheneOS has over 400k users. It's hard to understand why one of our users running a Discourse forum is resulting in us suddenly getting attacked across platforms. These attacks on GrapheneOS happening across platforms every single day are increasingly desperate and ridiculous.

Our forum at https://discuss.grapheneos.org/ is hosted with Flarum rather than Discourse. Neither is written in a language we would have chosen and we would have done things differently. We prefer Flarum over Discourse though and have made small changes to improve privacy and security.

Forum software needs IP addresses to protect against spammers. We use StopForumSpam's database to block spammers from registering. For privacy reasons, we download IP blocklists instead of querying their API and they made a special setup for us to get more than hourly updates.