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Message from the Godot Foundation Board (programming.dev)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Foundation's Reply

On Friday, we made a tweet that unexpectedly led to a wave of harassment directed at our staff and community. We unequivocally condemn this abuse. The volume of negative engagement overwhelmed our moderation efforts. While attempting to protect the Godot community we mistakenly blocked individuals who were not participating in the harassment. The Godot Foundation Board takes full responsibility for these moderation actions. If you believe you were blocked in error and have not violated our Code of Conduct, please contact us with the form linked below. We are committed to swiftly rectifying any mistakes. We firmly stand by our mission to keep our community spaces free from hate, discrimination, and other toxic behaviors. - The Godot Foundation Board

On community moderator Xananax

We strongly condemn the harmful language used by Xananax, moderator of an unofficial Godot-related Discord server. We want to clarify that Xananax is not hired by nor a spokesperson for the Godot Foundation. As an organization, we have our own official Discord server, moderated together with new volunteers vetted by our team.

Context

Link to the tweet that was the nexus for this event
- https://xcancel.com/godotengine/status/1839656658932306395
What the tweet above was referencing:

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't even figure out who got mad over what here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think the Twitter manager is lgbt or something and wanted to promote lgbt representation. They used the term “woke” in an official tweet where they intended to achieve this.

My understanding is that “woke” is a poorly defined political term.

People apparently asked for the engine to not get political and a lot of people got banned simply for criticising the tweet. I don’t see anything particularly wrong with the tweet, nor with a lot of the criticism that apparently happened. Banning people for criticism seems very unprofessional though.

Perhaps the Twitter manager took it as people calling the existence of lgbt political? Perhaps there was a large number of troublemakers who had to get banned and some innocent people criticising the tweet got caught in the crossfire? Perhaps the Twitter manager really was acting maliciously? I don’t know what happened.
Edit: It seems it was the second one.

Apparently sponsors got banned and stopped their support, and developers got banned from the GitHub.
I don’t care about twitter drama as I don’t use twitter, I just hope that this doesn’t affect the codebase.

I’ve seen a lot of drama channels on YouTube talk about this, but I haven’t seen anything from the YouTubers who I trust to talk about FOSS yet. From what I gather, there doesn’t seem to have been any major problems yet. It just seems to be things getting blown out of proportion. People make money from clicks and engagement. Fear and rage generates clicks.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

After seeing the thread, I don't think even understand what caused the outrage. There was so much unfounded hate everywhere, what the hell? Is this normal in twitter? Or do people there simply have some sort of hate switch that gets turned on whenever someone says woke (word which, honestly, I don't even fully understand what it means)

Reading those comments made me feel like I was reading a contest to see who could be the most hateful though, holy damn...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Twitter is a far-right oriented social network now and the far right is usually hateful by design.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Yeah that makes sense. I guess that the lack of positive replies could be attributed to the fact that the "real godot community" has long since left twitter. It's quite sad that the only people who still use it are those who spend their time spreading hate for whatever reason... Though on the bright side, them having their own little far-right social media to play means that there's a smaller chance they'll pervade other social media, which is a good thing. I definitely don't want to see those type of people here on lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I don't understand the outrage either. All the folks screaming at this clearly think inclusivity is bad. It's weird to be on Xitter rn, you feel like you want the reach it gives, but do you really want reach when all you can reach is these hatespewers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly I wonder if the chuds are trying to coordinate a 'godot-gate' because they have nothing better to do with their lives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be completely honest, this whole thing seems to have nothing to do with godot at all. These bullies found a target, that's all. I can only assume that once this whole "controversy" dies out, their reaction to godot will be "godot? Wazzat? Never heard of it."

So I don't think anything like a godot-gate will come out of it (assuming a godot-gate would be something like boycotting godot, or campaigning against its use)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I don't think it'll work, but I don't put it past them for trying.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

An organization that can admit its mistakes, stand behind its employees, and offer a way to try to fix their mistakes? Now this is a great PR move.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't fully agree. It's still not good pr to lose your control and blocking innocent devs. Social media managers be doing anything to get clout.

I want to be clear that I don't support the outrage at all. I'm just saying godot needs a community manager who can stay calm and act responsibly. Also twitter is the hell of Internet. I can't believe people still use it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very funny, the people who were saying "good luck losing your customers!" Uh, it's FOSS lmao. What customers?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Godot definitely has sponsors which while not directly being "customers" are still very important when it comes to financing the development of the engine

Having said that I want to believe current sponsors won't have issues with the Godot Foundation here

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh noooo, not the Godot customers :(((((

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The dumbest part isn't even the comment, it's how many people liked it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I'm honestly convinced there's a multiplier on likes to boost apparent engagement. That or I have finally lost all hope for humanity

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago

@kryllic It is crazy how this non-issue is becoming somekind of controversy. It was posted on that hate-filled site. I am not taking the reaction seriously at all. Godot is awesome and nothing has changed that.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

Based and godotpilled