Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!

[lexbailey@tech.lgbt]

@Blender this is awful news

[rataunderground@neopaquita.es]

@Blender Do you really need to tarnish Blender’s (until now, spotless) reputation with this move? Not a single one of your users is going to be happy with this decision.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@Blender Blech.

[missaemilia@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender What the fuck are you thinking? What next, the nazis?

[benjoe@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender Walk it back, pls.

[ratking@mstdn.io]

@Blender Is nothing sacred anymore?

[perry@mk.absturztau.be]

@Blender@mastodon.social for fucks sake, can you please not?

[lumi@snug.moe]

@Blender no-one wants this shit. please reconsider

[desttinghim@gamedev.lgbt]

@Blender even if this does not give anthropic any control over blender, the messaging is tone deaf, especially on the fediverse. If you're going to accept money from a company as toxic as Anthropic, the announcement needs to at the very least critique them, not blandly heap praise for the donation. Community trust is hard to win and easy to lose, so I would think hard about the message this post is sending to your community.

[schelling@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender Awful awful awful... Real disappointing and worrying.

[msbellows@c.im]

@Blender NOOOOOOOO! What the hell are you thinking? You're allowing Anthropic to whitewash its murder of everything you say you value. Don't do this.

[stonykark@mstdn.ca]

@Blender fuck your company and your now-terrible product. I hope you all lose your jobs next.

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender

Dear young child of summer

No corporation gives you money without getting something in return.

[lumiworx@mastodon.social]

@Blender

Even if... and that is a massive IF ... they have zero influence at the moment, the optics of accepting their cash is a shitshow on steroids. It looks like tacit acceptance at the very least, and it will likely come back to bite you in the ass.

Ya coulda just said, "Thanks, but no."

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@Blender I did.

Fuck right off with that. I do not give a fuck about your excuses for accepting what is essentially blood money from a company that kills creativity and steals from the open source community with impunity. I regret ever giving a single dime to you and will not do so ever again. Fuck you. Fuck off.

[blender@mastodon.social]

Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.

[raritastic@mastodon.online]

@Blender This is so disappointing. What alternative exists now that Blender is taking slopcorp money?

[dianaprobst@mastodon.art]

@Blender FFS.

[odd@sunny.garden]

@Blender

[craigp@mastodon.social]

@Blender Didn't reword the whitewashing paean to the corporation on your website, though. You'd whitewash anyone.

Pathetic.