Godot leadership banned a Ukrainian maintainer amidst Russian invasion of Ukraine, which became the straw that broke camel's back.

Many people misunderstand my motivation on why I talk about Godot's wrongdoings for so long.

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While I do have an emotional attachment to the project, which shows absolutely all signs of being an actual cult, as a former member of it, it's my ethical duty to talk about it. Some people may not understand the entire notion of ethics or duty in the first place, though...
Godot leadership's political stance against a Ukrainian contributor and maintainer has lead to unprecedented consequences for Godot leadership. They didn't expect that I'd continue talking about their wrongdoings for so long, and they thought that they could get away with this.
I'm definitely not the only one who Godot leadership has permanently banned. But their decision, along with the Russian war against Ukraine, has opened my eyes to many things in terms of toxic leadership.
Godot leadership may even express their "support" for Ukraine when they face a situation that they cannot avoid, but as hypocrisy goes, these are just empty words. And not just words, but manipulations and lies. It's not about what they say, it's about their actions.
The way Godot community is currently managed is mutually exclusive to democracy values. They cannot possibly support Ukraine by definition. Godot leadership is inspired by authoritarian regimes out there, including russia, just look at who bootlicks Godot leadership currently.
I'm not talking about democratic governance, which is different to democratic values. Ukraine happens to elicit these values to the world, and toxic, authoritarian leaders around the world are literally outraged by this.
As you hopefully have figured by now, what seemed to be a local conflict between me and Godot leadership has turned to be a by far more important endeavor, namely promoting democratic values in Open Source communities. For as long as the war is ongoing, I ought to continue.
There definitely exist Open Source projects that share democracy values. Due to all of this, I just happen to use Godot as a prominent example of this failure now, it's like a failed democracy state, which ironically was never about democratization, but more like idolization.
If you're truly interested, I invite you to read my free eBook which explains all of the above in great detail, and by doing so, hopefully you could build a stable, fruitful, and egalitarian Open Source community, and not an imitation of those values:

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Feb 15
The admin of Godot forums keeps locking the discussion concerning Godot's governance.

Several people attacked my character in a thread which discussed the fact of Godot leadership founding commercial companies for Godot.

web.archive.org/web/2023021519…

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Non-archived version available here: godotforums.org/d/32795-commer…
Someone in the discussion asked what kind of goal I have in mind. After the discussion got locked, I asked him the same question in private.

He left the private conversation, that's exactly how cultists operate, they don't answer the questions. 😉
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Sep 7, 2022
When I say that Juan keeps striking community with his stupidity, I mean it. @reduzio expresses his "Messiah complex", once again.

"What kind of jokes are these?", you may ask. Let's see what #Godoctor says about Juan, cult leader of #GodotEngine.

#CancelGodotEngine #GodotCult
The "Messiah complex" of Juan stems from his desire to save the world from those "evil" corporations. Taken together with above, he probably wants to show that he's a "Superman":

But perhaps this has more deep roots. Recall the "Thanos" tweet of Juan? Perhaps this "Godot meteor" is connected with his desire to "purge" the userbase that use "commercial software"?

Read 6 tweets
Aug 14, 2022
Godot leadership betrays their ideology!

Lead developer @reduzio and project manager @Akien launched a commercial company called W4 Games!

Free and #OpenSource game engine wants to have a cake and eat it too!

#GodotEngine #CancelGodotEngine #TruthAboutGodot #GameDev
W4 Games website.

Notice how Godot leadership deliberately leaves out important information when they say it's a company of "Godot veterans", but those "Godot veterans" and Godot leadership are the same persons.

w4games.com
Feel free to familiarize yourself with my previous threads on this topic to understand why Godot is not community-driven and my explanation of why the mentality of Godot leadership is not open as you might have expected:

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Aug 12, 2022
Juan "The Great", aka @reduzio, once said:

"The world does not care about you or what you think, or about your world views. Keep those to yourself."

These are petty tyrant's advice that undermine critical thinking, creativity, individuality...

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Opinion on the above @reduzio advice from someone who does not have an idea what #Godot represents.

In retrospect, I was highly attached to #GodotEngine, and I used to think that there's something wrong with me.

Having access to outside opinion is crucial.

#GodotCult #IGotOut Image
So yeah, I did reach out to someone from the outside, as you see above. Otherwise, I'd still be contributing to Godot and continue being deluded by Juan's cult indoctrination.

Read 4 tweets
Aug 12, 2022
I recall a proposal in Godot which suggested to hire a full time marketing person. This is exactly how cult communities tend to fixate on promoting their ideology. Why not just make the product speak for itself?

#GodotEngine #GodotCult #CancelGodotEngine

github.com/godotengine/go…
Even then, Godot doesn't need a marketing representative, because Godot's toxic leadership achieved this by making a cult out of Godot already. Proposals like above are simply a byproduct, because the process of promoting Godot is built into their ideology.
Godot followers will go out of their ways and suggest Godot in other unrelated communities. They'll write bad reviews on other engines to make Godot stand out. They achieve their superficial and unrealistic image of superiority by putting others down.

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Aug 6, 2022
Behavior of Juan, aka @reduzio, lead developer of @godotengine, can be summarized as undue influence, which manifests as hypocrisy, lack of empathy, inattentiveness, irresponsibility.

Below is my critical analysis.

#GodotEngine #TruthAboutGodot #GodotCult #CancelGodotEngine
Juan posses a belief that he's destined to help people to make great games. He attempts to create a game engine which could allow users to create both casual and AAA games with little to no effort. But if you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
Juan focuses his efforts of making the engine accessible to everyone. He will always prioritize features that make the image of Godot look nice in the eyes of beholder, like editor features or movie maker mode, at the expense of neglecting core parts of the engine.
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