Please read what we posted as a project and what Daniel posted. It does not say that he's leaving the project. It says he's stepping down from public and leadership roles due to harassment. It has been misinterpreted elsewhere. Our words are the only source that should be used.

Daniel stepped down due to an intense harassment, bullying and character assassination campaign which had recently escalating to swatting attacks followed by a major influencer jumping on board with the attacks. Attacks have continued and even escalated in some ways since then, including the admin of a Mastodon instance related to a popular podcast deciding without provocation or having any previous interaction with the project deciding to take part.

We didn't announce that anyone is leaving the project as it has been misinterpreted elsewhere. The aim was protecting Daniel from further harassment, not abandoning him to it.

Daniel is still a GrapheneOS developer. Our hope is that he won't be targeted nearly as much if he doesn't have much of a public role in the project and isn't the leader of the organization or the open source project. Harassment and fabrications targeting him became very extreme.

That hope however continues to be challenged to extremis.