[blackeyeblitzar]

For those wondering what this is about: my understanding is that Godot has been turning increasingly political over time, and its community spaces in particular have become very aggressively political (towards the far left). A community moderator has been taking that to new levels, by posting political messages from official Godot Twitter/X accounts, such as a joke rebranding of the engine as “Wokot” (like “woke Godot”).

They then went on a spree of banning anyone who criticized them even in the slightest, such as people asking Godot to focus on the engine’s features, bugs, etc. This led to donors cancelling their funding of Godot. But the community moderator doubled down on mass bans for uncontroversial pushback, and seemingly the same individual or group also had the ability to control their GitHub accounts, since developers who pushed back on politicization were getting banned from contributing.

All of this is deeply unprofessional and goes to show how far politics has invaded spaces that really should be apolitical. The head of the project was expected to bring the situation under control, but the statement from the foundation board seems dishonest and has not admitted that the ‘unofficial’ server is basically the official one, or that the people banned did not say anything wrong, or that they need to refocus away from personal politics to what Godot should be. And it doesn’t seem like there has been any accountability for the rogue community manager(s), who should really all be fired.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/godot-engine-user-bloc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1fsvcdg/from_the_god...

https://youtu.be/ZXlWz09tqgs