It all started with the unofficial godot discord admin dealing with some chuds and people turning their ire towards the Godot Foundation staff instead.
Since Godot has stubbornly remained on the Xitter nazi bar as a valid space for PR and social media interaction and dared to promote the Wokot hashtag and reiterate their progessiveness, the reactionaries infesting that space are now piling on their socials and harassing everyone they can get their eyes on.
Examples
- https://x.com/LifeArtStudios/status/1840230152254509067
- https://x.com/Grummz/status/1840162056928145740
- https://x.com/madewithgodot/status/1841118786964840618
Anyway, solidarity with the targets of harassment. I hope they finally realize that Xitter is a lost cause.
Update: Godot is being review-bombed
Fortunately the reactionary backlash seems to be having the opposite effect
Let the fascist idiots stay with predatory tech like Unity. Fuck 'em all. Conservatives make shit games; they can stick with shit middleware.
Time for Godot to get off Twitter.
I mean, it seems Godot did make money from this, so I guess the Twitter helped.
If you get political, people will react 🤷♂️
Treating everyone like human beings is not political. It’s common decency.
Homobia, transphobia and racism are not political ideas.
As you can see by the abuse they are now getting this is just shit people being shit.
And even if this was political abusing workers for a company’s political stance is also not a sane way to react.
Unfortunately it is, and the way you think humans should react isn’t actually how they do.
seems to be having the opposite effect
unfortunately not for the Steam Reviews overall
Conveniently Godot is not a game and general consumer reviews have no real relevance
I always love watching the g*mers embarrass themselves though.
One day they’ll figure who’s behind all those pesky micro transactions… One day.
Twitter blows ass and if they hate you you’re probably right.
Not guaranteed. But a solid bet.
That’s a great way to look at it. You’re probably spot on.
It’s actually really funny to see review bomb attempts on a non-profit FOSS project. No shareholders to appease, no profits to they need to protect, just a community of people contributing to the tool they use.
Grrrr!! I hate WOKE! 😡😡 /s
Finally a place I can share my cold takes. (I’m not on Twitter, I won’t discuss this on Reddit either.)
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The community manager had a meltdown and blocking everyone was a power trip and was wrong.
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Godot’s tweet was wrong, because it used the word “woke” which immediately drives any conversation into the gutter. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the right or left, as soon as you say the word “woke” you have ruined the conversation.
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It is good that Godot explicitly supports LGBT+ people. They should be welcome. The community CoC should make this explicit, and it does. A tweet to reaffirm this is fine, a cringe joke born from the dredges of Twitter is less fine.
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Godot’s “revenge forks” are amusing and will not go anywhere. Someone might collect some donations before grifting into the night though.
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None of this has any effect on Godot’s technical suitability for creating a game.
20% by 20%, the progress bar of me agreeing with this assessment went to a 100% as I was reading it.
Revenge fork is a weird name for these forks. A fork is a fork, even a tiny change like changing the logo is a legitimate fork.
If anything if the Godot community could stop harassing the fork owners, that would be great. Them receiving harassment is the most ironic part about this, because there is more proof of that than the harassment the Godot community manager claims they faced.
I’ll share mine too.
The community manager had a meltdown and blocking everyone was a power trip and was wrong.
Apparently they did receive a large number of tweets that genuinely warranted a ban, but some innocent people got caught in the crossfire. If this is true then Godot did the right thing by responding as neutrally as they can and giving people a way to get unbanned. If it’s not, then yeah very wrong.
Additionally, the Twitter manager apparently said some unprofessional stuff on her personal. I think there was something about her requesting a shower pic from a very large controversial streamer. I feel like that sort of action would bring attention from trolls.
Also I think there was something about a discord mod saying some dehumanising things about the “anti woke” people. Even if these people were causing trouble and deserved a ban, you shouldn’t dehumanise them. That will just make them more aggressive and convince them that “woke” people are indeed some kind of adversary.
Godot’s tweet was wrong, because it used the word “woke” which immediately drives any conversation into the gutter. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the right or left, as soon as you say the word “woke” you have ruined the conversation.
I think that word is loosely defined. To the drama people “woke/wokism” seems to relate to the idea of people aggressively wanting all media to contain pro lgbt messaging. I think the official meaning relates to awareness of modern issues. “Woke” seems to be a political term, but I suppose some people feel like calling “woke” political is harmful to lgbt rights?
I think inviting people to present their “wokot” is fine, but it probably shouldn’t be done from an official account.
It is good that Godot explicitly supports LGBT+ people. They should be welcome. The community CoC should make this explicit, and it does. A tweet to reaffirm this is fine, a cringe joke born from the dredges of Twitter is less fine.
Hard agree! Strongly agree!
Godot’s “revenge forks” are amusing and will not go anywhere. Someone might collect some donations before grifting into the night though. None of this has any effect on Godot’s technical suitability for creating a game.
Agreed. Give it a year or two. Possibly sooner. It’ll be somewhat interesting if they do go somewhere and contribute something, although I doubt that will happen.
Regardless of what happened and how it will turn out. If Godot increased their budget, even if it was in an unprofessional way, I guess this is an entirely positive thing for people who aren’t on those proprietary social platforms.
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Open source software is the wokest shit possible… It’s pretty much digital communism run by the gayest furries you’ll ever meet.
I can’t tell if you intent this as a positive or a negative, but it very much an accurate assessment.
Positive. I love FOSS culture, for the most part.
Love the communist gay furry part of it, the digital part not so much.
Why would you think it was negative? My only guess would be the way Leninists like to cosplay as Communists. And the way the west likes to smear communists by associating them with leninists.
I bookmarked this comment. It’s beautiful
It kinda depends on the license. Copyleft licenses are definitely digital communism–but licenses like CC or other extremely permissive licenses are digital libertarianism. I’m good with it in any case.
cc-by-sa is copyleft
Nice to see some figures on the change in support levels. I was donating €5 a month and I’ve bumped it up to €50 for the next few months.
I get the impression that a lot of the people complaining on twitter are not even gamedevs and don’t know what Godot is, it’s just the reactionary pile-on du jour.
This is evident in a few ways:
- How they subtly or glaringly misunderstand what it is and what it does
- How they call it “a company”
- How they pronounce it as GO-DOT
I’m new here, and I’ve been calling it “go-dot”. What’s the correct pronunciation?
It sounds like G-DOUGH.
@overcast5348 @moormaan The correct pronounciation is “Guh-Doh” or “Go-Doh”. Honestly, a lot of people pronounce it Go-dot, so it isn’t a big deal. But it is based of the play “Waiting for Godot” where they usually pronounce it like I have mentioned.
Agreed, no big deal. But YouTubers who knew about it before this controversy will typically use the intended pronouncing, and it’s easy to spot those who didn’t care much about it until this all started.
a lot of the people complaining on twitter are not even gamedevs and don’t know what Godot is
You’re probably right. Homophobes aren’t the brightest of the bunch.
… since when did the project have customers lol?
is a service or product receiver only a customer if they are paying money?
I wouldn’t say it has to be money. Just that it has to be a formal exchange. I’d say the open source donation model is more “informal”.
I guess technically businesses like Microsoft were customers; I think there was something about them paying Godot to support C#.
Unreal, Godot, how do these fools think games get made?
Unsurprisingly most gamedevs, at least the ones that make good games, are either minorities themselves, or positive to their/our plight
After all, the best art isn’t made by the people who enshrine conservative ideals
The flagbearer is ofc grummz, the terminally online ex-gamedev chud who turned to shit every game he touched and has had his right-wing grifting platform on Xitter massively boosted in recent years.
I don’t know shit about the situation (I don’t use twitter), but not being on the same side as Mark “Physiognomy” Kern seems like the right call.
I long for the days when people didn’t call any concept they disagreed with “political.”
Oh so you’re a conservative!
/s
It was just a tweet… And then they say that the “wokes” are the hypersensitive snowflakes?
It’s always projection.
I stand in solidarity with Godot.
I feel like it’s important to note that eating, breathing, and having a fun time with friends are all very LGBTQ+ activities! #woke
I didn’t know it was because of them supporting LGBTQ+, mostly because they’ve been doing that for a very long time now and very publicly. I thought most of the backlash stemmed from this;
From what I’ve read, that person is not officially affiliated with the Godot project. They just moderate an unofficial Discord server that is Godot-related.
The unofficial server yet lots of people don’t know that because they were official until they suddenly weren’t but then lots of these same mods are mods on the actual official discord.
Oh okay that helps a lot, Thanks. I guess a lot of people are trying to spin it like this is the official server.
It used to be the only Godot server, but I don’t think it was ever labeled “official”
Correct, it was the biggest most known one. Godot kind of pointed towards it with the message “We don’t officially do discord, but here is a big one that is unofficial”. Always felt like this was to not fragment it into 20 discord servers.
Some people claiming that it was “practically the official one” are bending the truth to fit a narrative to say the least.
Reactionaries don’t tend to care much about reality after they’ve created something to be mad about
Wow, now that I have some context, I’m an even bigger fan of Godot than before. Supporting LGBTQ+ rights isn’t political. If you’re offended because people exist that don’t think like you, then yeah, you can fuck right off somewhere else.
I think it’s the term “woke” that people considered political.
