I have not seen a country flag in so time on their discuss so it might just be they remove country flags.

But if its not I hope that gets fixed and I can’t imagine everyone on the team is satisfied with it because according to a mastodon post by them there are anarchist on their team https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116839275503662225 with i can’t image love Israel and hate palestine. So it might just be the community manager hopefully.

It was not the community manager of grapheneos censoring the comment because of a palestine flag if i am not wrong it was the person hosting the live stream i think its an important distinction.

But the handing over data from a email account is not a choice for them its a legal requirement.

Cryptomator and cloud storage or termix and rclone.

LineageOS is android and more secure because of that. Android has strict selinux policy’s and good sandboxing i would not use a linux phone.

I don’t think form a data broker perspective. More that a malicious person may find you more interesting.

When it comes to email I think you should consider what the biggest downside is. Big Tech invading your privacy or you standing out in a data breach because you use a privacy focused email and MAYBE looking suspicious to your employer because you use a weird email.