Will chill from Twitter/X until after the US elections. Almost all the hate Godot got over the weekend was pretty much people who had not a clue what a game engine is, what Godot is, or what a FOSS / community made project is. Most of the ones who did were the usual haters.
Checking profile of haters, majority pro-trump people with weird religious symbology, or people with avatars/obsession for anime little girls.
Sometimes I feel I am too innocent for this world.
@aras Surprisingly, this is an entirely Twitter thing. There was no any real spilling anywhere else and the rest of the communities continued as if nothing.
Anyone I know not on Twitter has not even heard of it.
It seems most of the games/tech industry people moved here, and a lot of gamedevs moved to bluesky.
@reduz Please keep up the good work on Godot, I really appreciate having a mainstream FOSS game engine available to me for both use and teaching.
Internet chuds gonna chud.
@reduz it's the same fuckers who go scouring the web for new targets to bully.
Distancing for a while is probably a wise choice - if they don't get any strong reactions, they'll get bored and move on to whoever is their next target of the week.
Felt sorry for all you Godot folks when I saw the news about it. Hope y'all are taking care of one another
@reduz I feel like weird toxic voices are always in games. I remember "you can't make a real game if you can't make a game engine" "you can't make a real game in that game engine" "mobile games won't succeed" &c
For awhile it did negatively impact my mental state (and this was pre-Twitter PHPBB days)... I suppose it did force me to learn to the things, but now everyone makes Unity Mobile games (and hopefully soon everyone will be making Godot mobile games) 😂
@furby he's just rolling his and CM's horrible decision of banning absolutely anyone they slightly disagree with into the pile of "usual right wingers" even though that has literally nothing to do with it.
I was there from the get-go and there wasn't much in the way of religion (am an Atheist myself) or a lot of "little girls as profile pictures" he mentions of.
Initial tweet was in poor taste, was also replying to something that was completely irrelevant at the time (2 likes).
@Koffiato @furby, indeed. There are enough adequately concrete examples, like:
1. The CM stating that their actions were incorrect, and not merely that, were caused by inconsistent (in)adherence to their depression medication regimen: https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/1fse8jd/comment/lpl4e7s/
2. People were banned from contribution (*from a FOSS project*) due to their conduct on other platforms. That's stalkerish, and irrational.
3. One of the problematic moderators for the Discord is a racist: https://x.com/GamesNosh/status/1840499469160190381
@Koffiato @furby, since I made this comment, I was informed that the man banned from GitHub did so because he misused the issues to communicate his dislike of the aforementioned.
That wasn't the correct avenue for it, so although I wouldn't have necessarily banned him for it, it was undoubtedly rational. One shouldn't misuse development platforms for social media.
It all started with the unofficial godot discord admin [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28755832] 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 [https://x.com/godotengine/status/1839656658932306395] and reiterate their progessiveness, the reactionaries infesting that space are now piling on their socials and harassing everyone they can get their eyes on [https://x.com/hashtag/Godot]. Examples * https://x.com/LifeArtStudios/status/1840230152254509067 [https://x.com/LifeArtStudios/status/1840230152254509067] * https://x.com/Grummz/status/1840162056928145740 [https://x.com/Grummz/status/1840162056928145740] * https://x.com/madewithgodot/status/1841118786964840618 [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 [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/7bef8699-c4ae-4e91-add7-9dcc3641828a.webp] Fortunately the reactionary backlash seems to be having the opposite effect [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/f77934b3-5be5-4543-a19a-c50483477db8.webp]
@reduz I don't think any real game developer really cares about the Twitter drama.
These hate posts on Twitter come from users who were not active users of the community and who had not previously contributed anything to the engine or the community, so who cares?
When I inspected the Twitter accounts behind the hate posts, I got the uncanny feeling that many of them aren not even real humans.
@reduz It's a bit of a lengthy video, but it's quite eye opening how much X promotes far-right content on their algorithms, which explains why this is so exclusive to X (and Youtube on some extent by drama youtubers).
This drama was non-existent on my bluesky feed, and on my mastodon feed just people defending Godot.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
@reduz In all honesty, these guys will use any opportunity to harass everyone who isn't like them, and that's not organic at all, but coordinated.
As someone who lives in Brazil, which used to have a far right federal gov., I watched how destruction for their own benefit is the only thing they do and care, this is also visible by "fake gamers" who just makes hateful content about diverse games, and will distort reality thanks to social media post-truth.
@reduz
> majority pro-trump people or people with avatars/obsession for anime little girls
Are you for real?
@reduz You really should take a brake. Your response is highly unprofessional - mixing your american elections and if it doesnt work - blaiming people on the Internet for having anime pfp.
This is silly and I hope You will realise that someday.
Wish You well
🫡@reduz "majority pro-trump people with weird religious symbology, or people with avatars/obsession for anime little girls."
This is really just adding more fuel to the fire.
> Sometimes I feel I am too innocent for this world.
That's quite a statement. It's one I would be embarrassed to state.
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