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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!
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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago
Unsure if this would work, but the idea is interesting enough to be discussed on https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/ if you can share it and give details on how it work in your mind.

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

I believe they have their own player already, so unsure what would be their direct interest, but the PeerTube ecosystem could be useful to them anyway. For instance there's a big French institution that uses PeerTube runner for their video transcription tasks (and paid for specific features), but doesn't use the PeerTube server or player at all.

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

I don't think we have been. Thing is, we do not know of many organizations that are identical to us in other countries: we're not really a Linux or FLOSS group, and we don't lobby governments or other institutions. In some ways, we're similar to Disroot which also offers services as we do, but since we do quite a lot of other stuff (developing PeerTube, producing commons, sharing knowledge, and we even have a publishing house!)

Even if we have been working with a lot of partners, most of them are French and on very specific topics.

If people want to join forces on the FLOSS-software-hosting services topic, maybe look into something similar to the (very french) CHATONS (and possibly https://libreho.st/, but it's no longer active to our knowledge).

On the topic of contributing to develop things together, we're not doing much apart from PeerTube (we only have two developers, and both are working nearly fully on PeerTube).

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Hi!

We're actually considering hiring a new full-stack developer in the future (to work on all of our services, not on PeerTube) and that would be possible for us to hire someone leaving in another country if:

the person accepts a French salary-level
the person speaks French (a big part of our team does not speak English)

Keep watching our posts on our social media, so you won't miss the announce!---

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Hi!

We want to work on it ASAP but we can't give you an ETA for now. You can know more about our roadmap concerning PeerTube in the blog post we published last month!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Hi!

The wizard is still not designed, but yes we think it will include federation settings so it's easier for institutions or private instances to setup a "safe" PeerTube instance.
We're actually evaluating alternative softwares for Framadate, with mobile support as a required feature. We'll tell more about it once we're ready!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus for sure!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

No, because the PeerTube app uses Flutter: https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/mobile-application

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

We have replaced WebTorrent in the PeerTube player with https://github.com/novage/p2p-media-loader, which supports live streams. Torrents are not completely off the table, as they are still generated on the server. Users can download and use these in their preferred torrent client.

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Yes, we are looking into allowing users to add their platforms manually (as you can already do on Android). We just don't have an ETA yet!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Yes it is if you don't use muxing (disable transcoding) because we don't think the Raspberry CPU will be able to handle it. Yes, you can use another drive with PeerTube. It just doesn't support a remote drive (network mounted point for example). No, you can't connect to the live chat using Masotdon or Lemmy, but you can using another PeerTube instance or using a XMPP client.

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

The P2P system in PeerTube works very well if you have many concurrent viewers. You can have more information in our blogpost that details a P2P stress test: https://joinpeertube.org/news/stress-test-2023 But if most of the time you don't have many concurrent viewers, you'll still have to pay the bandwidth. But as you can see in the blog post above, PeerTube is not very expensive to host (if you don't have to store many videos).

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Thanks for being there!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

We're not aware of this federation issue. So yes, please, describe the problem at https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues and we'll look into it!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Thanks a lot!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

You can get up-to-date and detailed statistics (2024) on the crowdfunding page in the "Who is Framasoft? How do they get funds to make PeerTube?" :

We are funded by donations (mainly from the French-speaking community). 94 % of our 2024 funds comes from donations, with 76 % from grassroots donations, and 18 % from fondations' grants (like NLnet).

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

Hi!

Thanks for your questions!

We didn't start big. Framasoft exists since 21 years with a team full of volunteers. However, there are essential steps we reached during our journey. First, we launched the de-google-ify campaign, aiming to help people to escape from Big Tech. This campaign happened only two years after Snowden's revelations and we think it played a big role in its success in France. Quickly, we had enough money to hire new employees. So, we had the ability to hire our sysadmin at full time. That helped us a lot to maintain a good service quality so people knew they could trust us with their data and use our services. Finally, we hired someone dedicated to our communication. He did a huge work and helped us to find our identity: you know, all those cute mascots you can find on most of our communications. We wanted FLOSS softwares to be attractive for most people and this new identity helped us a lot to reach a wider audience (not only tech-savvy people!).

Also, we work hard each year to build funding campaigns. They are helping us a lot to collect the money we need to work but require at least 1 month of work from different people of our team.

Concerning tips and strategis to other FLOSS devs... It's kinda hard since we think the context we had is different from now. BUT, we truly think that being respectful to people using our services and transparent about our failures helped people to understand we are just a small team of humans trying to do their best!

I hope this answer helped you!

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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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Framasoft @lemmy.world 1y ago

As the major part of our income comes from our fundraising campaign at the end of every year, it depends on when you ask this question. So, along the year, we're operating with something between 3 and 9 months buffer. Of course, we're lucky to also have monthly donators who help ensure that cash flow does not decline too much.