Here are several links to discussions and posts that support these claims.

When reading the threads below, pay attention to Unity community moderators such as hippocoder, Eric5h5, as well as Godot followers, supporters, and/or believers such as Ryiah, neoshaman, Murgilod, etc.

• Whats up with the moderators these days?

  • AndersMalmgren says, emphasis mine:

They are locking relevant threads like crazy. As a paying customer its a bit annoying actually. Unity should maybe consider to only have employees as moderators instead.

• Buhlaine locked the thread and happens to be a former community manager at Unity, who recently expressed enthusiasm over Brackeys' plans to learn Godot (more on that in a future post, perhaps).

• Injust moderation practices

• AndersMalmgren, the person who started the thread above, replies about hippocoder:

hippo and the other guy is a bit strange moderators, very true. Like all the nonse threads hippos creates. But he locks my business relevant ones like the gfx job one a while back

• Unity Forum moderators are being annoying

  • hippocoder praises Ryiah to become another moderator, who is a Godot supporter.

• I dont' mean to be disruptive, but Eric5h5 is just wrong

• Unity employees are no longer permitted to be moderators of this subreddit

  • Volunteers at the Unity subreddit forbid official representatives to moderate the subreddit.

• I think Eric5h5 doesn't get the respect he deserves

  • Eric5h5 is praised on the Unity subreddit, which expresses anti-Unity sentiments currently as per the thread above.

• Eric5h5's post, commenting on "Road to Vostok" in the Unity forums—a game initially developed with Unity but now being ported to Godot—notes a perceived decrease in quality with the transition. Despite this, Eric5h5 expresses disappointment with Unity's decisions and remains optimistic about Godot's potential.

See also my mega thread demonstrating the severe bias of Unity community moderators (who are merely volunteers, not necessarily official Unity employees):

• Some Unity users and even moderators within Unity community are infected with the futile ideology of waiting for Godot! This must be fixed! Let me explain why.

Interestingly, Juan Linietsky, the lead developer of Godot, previously posted a tweet with a message from hippocoder, saying:

Unity forum moderator does not have a lot of faith in an open source project vs corporation created software..

If you've read the above mega thread, something doesn't add up here, as hippocoder had previously expressed a strong pro-Godot stance on the Unity forums. Additionally, in the same thread by Juan, he replied that:

We are not really competing with anyone.. Godot is not a business :\

These statements exhibit hypocrisy and deceit as Juan co-founded the for-profit W4 Games company, capitalizing specifically on Godot's popularity to offer commercial Godot services.

Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that hippocoder might have been in contact with Juan earlier, especially since hippo claimed to have allegedly signed the email for Sony to accept Godot. In one of his posts on X, hippocoder, aka SquaredApe, reaches out to Juan suggesting that Godot's upcoming Asset Store should best be done as a private company, with funds funneling into separate console builds for Godot, rather than being an open-source attached affair.

Unity's inherent issues notwithstanding, given the aforementioned evidence, it's challenging to deny the fact that influential Unity community volunteers, who were granted moderator privileges by official Unity staff, are not acting in the best interests of Unity as a company.