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4.4K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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Known for
127 views
Come and win some goodies at the best booth of #FOSDEM to celebrate the 25th year of VLC!
45 views
VideoLAN team at @fossasia 2026, with a booth full of goodies, stickers and a demo of VLC showing the new AV2 codec playback in real time!
16 views
Come and visit our @FFmpeg / @videolan NAB booth at West W3323 to speak about open source solutions from encoding to players!
#NABShow
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Feb 25latest
60
Avg engagement / post
28–45
Typical post (engagement)
1.4%
Engagement vs followers
55/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 28 and 45 likes + reposts (median 29) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: We are announcing the dav2d project: a small, fast and portable · 197 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.07 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
740×
Follows 6 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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RE: https://chaos.social/@T_X/116929036636522433
Developers cannot know all bugs. We are not omniscient. We need people to report bugs :)
dav2d should already be feature-complete, supporting 8-bit and 10-bit decoding, with optimizations for x86 (AVX2) and ARM (AArch64 NEON).
It's not fast yet, but you can achieve 100fps with a fast machine :)
VideoLAN team at @fossasia 2026, with a booth full of goodies, stickers and a demo of VLC showing the new AV2 codec playback in real time!
Come and win some goodies at the best booth of #FOSDEM to celebrate the 25th year of VLC!
Now also available on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS along with specific bug fixes for the latest 26 version of those platforms.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962
Today, we released VLC 3.0.23, our largest bugfix release ever. It also adds a dark mode on Windows and Linux, support for ARM64 Windows, improvements for Windows XP and much more. See details here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.…
Want to be paid to work on VLC this summer?
Go to http://g.co/gsoc to register as a VideoLAN contributor for GSoC 2025 and submit your proposal soon!
We have projects in C, C++, C#, Kotlin, assembly, Swift, ObjC, Go, JS, GPU shaders from n…
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC. A nicely researched article about the history of VideoLAN and VLC: https://kylebenzle.medium.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-vlc-424bde0f90f1
Come and visit our @FFmpeg / @videolan NAB booth at West W3323 to speak about open source solutions from encoding to players!
#NABShow
If you are a student or new to open source and want to work on VLC or VideoLAN projects during the summer while getting paid, NOW is the right time to apply to Google Summer of Code.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
Our download archive / FTP also mirroring many more libraries at https://download.videolan.org and the gitlab instance at https://code.videolan.org are back online!
VideoLAN team at @fossasia 2026, with a booth full of goodies, stickers and a demo of VLC showing the new AV2 codec playback in real time!
Come and win some goodies at the best booth of #FOSDEM to celebrate the 25th year of VLC!
Now also available on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS along with specific bug fixes for the latest 26 version of those platforms.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962
Today, we released VLC 3.0.23, our largest bugfix release ever. It also adds a dark mode on Windows and Linux, support for ARM64 Windows, improvements for Windows XP and much more. See details here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.…
Want to be paid to work on VLC this summer?
Go to http://g.co/gsoc to register as a VideoLAN contributor for GSoC 2025 and submit your proposal soon!
We have projects in C, C++, C#, Kotlin, assembly, Swift, ObjC, Go, JS, GPU shaders from n…
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC. A nicely researched article about the history of VideoLAN and VLC: https://kylebenzle.medium.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-vlc-424bde0f90f1
Come and visit our @FFmpeg / @videolan NAB booth at West W3323 to speak about open source solutions from encoding to players!
#NABShow
If you are a student or new to open source and want to work on VLC or VideoLAN projects during the summer while getting paid, NOW is the right time to apply to Google Summer of Code.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
Our download archive / FTP also mirroring many more libraries at https://download.videolan.org and the gitlab instance at https://code.videolan.org are back online!
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
floss.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 60 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated49/100
Fair
Credibility score
78%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 78% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~1.4% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Official account of the #VideoLAN project, #VLC and the community. Open Source Multimedia ftw.
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