Hi Lynne

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 05:50:28PM +0100, Lynne via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
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> I looked at the video, and I failed to understand the author's points - he

The authors point is that multiple FFmpeg supporters, who have NOT said bad things
about FFmpeg at all, some who donated to FFmpeg, where pulled into agressive
confrontational arguments by the official FFmpeg account.

Basically the official ffmpeg account is harrasing random supporters. Whenever
the person behind feels an itch to start an argument with someone.

The complaint is not about unconventional or confrontational tone
towards people being incompetent
towards people having spoken badly about ffmpeg or
towards some corporation

its about confrontational action towards ffmpeg supporters, when they
had an issue with vlc or when "ffmpeg" happened to half misread
what they said.
Or when they cause an itch by being associated with C++, type script or other

If vlc wants to confront people who complain about vlc, then vlc should
use their own account for that. Its not our buisness to do that.

Obviously confronting the java script community or c++ or whetevar is just
inappropriate, just why would we, whats the sense of that?

And we should not be confrontational towards our supporters, we simply
should not be. Thats just not appropriate.

If someone wants to do these things, nothing stops them from doing so with their
own personal twitter account. But not the official FFmpeg account

or maybe to litterally quote one part of the video:

"he cares way more about being funny on twitter than representing the project in a good light"

I think this hits one of the core parts of this.
These post are funny (in some sense) and they lead to engagement, but at the same
time they are damaging FFmpegs reputation

I dont think we should trade our reputation for being funny

Also the followers we get from this are shallow, these followers are here for the funny
posts, not for FFmpeg

thx

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