> Can anyone with comprehension of the project explain what this is about?

The OSM project has a default editor called iD. iD is developed by developers from Mapbox. As it is the default editor, iD via what it puts forward has a lot of leverage on the projects.

Recently, some people have complained about some of iD features. Notably iD pulls images from Facebook and some people feel it is an unnecessary loss of privacy.

Unfortunately, one of the iD maintainer seems slightly burnt out and as a result has questionable communication skills. This lead to poor handling of the Github issue and this blog post.