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  • ? Guest
    28 May 2025, 08:45

    Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

    Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

    What does Framasoft do?

    We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

    Among those tools are:

    • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
    • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
    • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
    • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

    Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

    We develop PeerTube

    In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

    From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

    The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

    Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

    Ask Us Anything!

    Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
    We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

    If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

    We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

    EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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    pseudo@jlai.lu
    wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:22 last edited by
    #44

    What could you recommend to a privacy enthusiast that want to turn they privacy literacy into work-related competence?

    ? 1 Reply Last reply 28 May 2025, 17:17
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    • ? Guest
      28 May 2025, 08:45

      Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

      Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

      What does Framasoft do?

      We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

      Among those tools are:

      • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
      • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
      • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
      • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

      Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

      We develop PeerTube

      In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

      From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

      The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

      Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

      Ask Us Anything!

      Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
      We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

      If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

      We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

      EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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      pseudo@jlai.lu
      wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:25 last edited by pseudo@jlai.lu
      #45

      Do you believe in the fediverse's ability to compete or to replace the current the social media environnement either from a technical perspective or from the dynamic of the environment?
      If so, would it be a close remplacement or will it change deeply the way people use social media?

      Same question specifically for PeerTube.

      ? 1 Reply Last reply 28 May 2025, 17:24
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      • ? Guest
        28 May 2025, 08:45

        Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

        Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

        What does Framasoft do?

        We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

        Among those tools are:

        • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
        • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
        • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
        • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

        Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

        We develop PeerTube

        In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

        From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

        The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

        Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

        Ask Us Anything!

        Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
        We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

        If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

        We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

        EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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        pseudo@jlai.lu
        wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:27 last edited by
        #46

        Do you think that the ability to browse content without an account is a differentiating factor to the fediverse?
        Would a content creator be able to attract lurking non-fedi user using that capacity?

        ? 1 Reply Last reply 28 May 2025, 17:28
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        • A abettertomorrow@lemm.ee
          28 May 2025, 11:26

          Salut! Ca va? (Learning French)

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          grue@lemmy.world
          wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:28 last edited by
          #47

          Learning French

          Moi aussi! Quelle methode utilisez-vous?

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          • ozoned@piefed.socialO ozoned@piefed.social
            28 May 2025, 12:03

            Framasoft are incredible folks. I just did an interview with Booteille yesterday!

            Folks can watch the interview here:

            https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/wuqKuurLmzX4ooDuEjJddG

            Or listen to the Fedicast here:

            https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/booteille-framasoft-livestream-2025-05-27

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            dioxippe@lemmy.world
            wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:29 last edited by
            #48

            Nice, thank you ! Subscribed to the channel 🙂

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            • ? Guest
              28 May 2025, 08:45

              Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

              Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

              What does Framasoft do?

              We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

              Among those tools are:

              • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
              • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
              • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
              • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

              Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

              We develop PeerTube

              In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

              From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

              The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

              Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

              Ask Us Anything!

              Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
              We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

              If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

              We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

              EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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              pseudo@jlai.lu
              wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:30 last edited by
              #49

              Do you have privacy-promotion organisations you would like to recommend (whatever language they are speaking)?

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              • ? Guest
                28 May 2025, 08:45

                Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

                Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

                What does Framasoft do?

                We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

                Among those tools are:

                • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
                • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
                • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
                • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

                Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

                We develop PeerTube

                In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

                From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

                The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

                Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

                Ask Us Anything!

                Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
                We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

                If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

                We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

                EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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                grue@lemmy.world
                wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:31 last edited by
                #50

                Y'all hiring?

                (Kinda joking 'cause I know you just said you're small, but I am genuinely interested in figuring out how to get a software dev job with a French company as an American looking to emigrate.)

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                • ? Guest
                  28 May 2025, 08:45

                  Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

                  Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

                  What does Framasoft do?

                  We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

                  Among those tools are:

                  • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
                  • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
                  • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
                  • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

                  Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

                  We develop PeerTube

                  In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

                  From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

                  The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

                  Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

                  Ask Us Anything!

                  Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
                  We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

                  If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

                  We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

                  EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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                  geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
                  wrote on 28 May 2025, 12:58 last edited by
                  #51

                  Thanks for your work!

                  What are your opinions on using open source algorithms to augment user retention?

                  P ? 2 Replies Last reply 28 May 2025, 13:55
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                  • ? Guest
                    28 May 2025, 08:45

                    Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

                    Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

                    What does Framasoft do?

                    We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

                    Among those tools are:

                    • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
                    • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
                    • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
                    • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

                    Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

                    We develop PeerTube

                    In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

                    From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

                    The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

                    Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

                    Ask Us Anything!

                    Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
                    We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

                    If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

                    We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

                    EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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                    wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
                    wrote on 28 May 2025, 13:04 last edited by wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
                    #52

                    I've been following all of your projects for two decades. I just want to say: un énorme merci!

                    ? 1 Reply Last reply 28 May 2025, 17:31
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                    • G geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
                      28 May 2025, 12:58

                      Thanks for your work!

                      What are your opinions on using open source algorithms to augment user retention?

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                      pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
                      wrote on 28 May 2025, 13:55 last edited by
                      #53

                      what does augmenting user retention mean in practice?

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                      • P pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
                        28 May 2025, 13:55

                        what does augmenting user retention mean in practice?

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                        geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
                        wrote on 28 May 2025, 13:58 last edited by
                        #54

                        Getting people to stay on the site and watch videos.

                        Not as a commercial goal or to sell more ads or whatever, but to try to recommend people the videos they want to see.

                        Many open source platforms seem to despise recommendation algorithms because they are often used nefariously (get people emotionally invested aka angry) but they certainly have their uses if used with proper intentions.

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                        • S soulkaribou@lemmy.ml
                          28 May 2025, 11:57

                          They have sepiasearch to search peertube instances. The drawback is that only specific instances are searchable, because of dubious contents on some instances.

                          https://sepiasearch.org/search

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                          meldrik@lemmy.wtf
                          wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:17 last edited by
                          #55

                          Sepia Search consist of all these instances: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

                          Also, PeerTube platforms can activate the same search index as Sepia Search, so you can make the same search directly from a platform.

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                          • ? Guest
                            28 May 2025, 08:45

                            Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

                            Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

                            What does Framasoft do?

                            We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

                            Among those tools are:

                            • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
                            • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
                            • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
                            • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

                            Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

                            We develop PeerTube

                            In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

                            From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

                            The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

                            Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

                            Ask Us Anything!

                            Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
                            We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

                            If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

                            We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

                            EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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                            meldrik@lemmy.wtf
                            wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:20 last edited by
                            #56

                            Have you considered implementing Librapay into PeerTube? Would be a nice tool for viewers to fast and easily support content creators.

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                            • A abnormalhumanbeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
                              28 May 2025, 11:23

                              IIRC WebTorrent support is removed. Is torrenting completely off the table?

                              It is? Like, in general, or just for the app? Just want to make sure I am not missing some huge news here, because if it is removed entirely going forward (it definitely still works on the web interface on Firefox as of me writing this) - that would be rather bad. It's a huge part of why PeerTube works so well.

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                              meldrik@lemmy.wtf
                              wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:24 last edited by
                              #57

                              It’s still there, but it is not recommended.

                              PeerTube still have P2P though, but not using torrent technology.

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                              • M meldrik@lemmy.wtf
                                28 May 2025, 14:24

                                It’s still there, but it is not recommended.

                                PeerTube still have P2P though, but not using torrent technology.

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                                abnormalhumanbeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
                                wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:26 last edited by
                                #58

                                Ah, I might have been misinformed then, I genuinely thought they were still using WebTorrent for P2P as a standard. As long as they still have a P2P system in place, I am relieved.

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                                • B bistdunarrisch@lemmy.world
                                  28 May 2025, 10:07

                                  Thank you for your work.

                                  As far as I understand it one of the big advantages is that every viewer simultaneously provides its download data for others to stream (peering). With this approach server capacity can be reduced but I wonder how well this works (If I even understood it correctly).

                                  With this system could it be possible to host videos on an own server without having to pay huge sever costs?

                                  Also what is a nice website to search through all videos, similar to the front page of YouTube?

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                                  meldrik@lemmy.wtf
                                  wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:30 last edited by
                                  #59

                                  There’s nothing stopping you installing PeerTube on your own home server and uploading your videos to that.

                                  If your internet bandwidth is low, you can have other PeerTube servers mirror your videos.

                                  So when someone watches your videos, it will not only download the data from your home server, but also from other PeerTube servers that mirror your videos.

                                  It won’t reduce server storage usage, because the video needs to be placed somewhere, but it will reduce bandwidth and traffic usage.

                                  Some PeerTube websites have Sepia Search enabled, so fx from PeerTube.wtf, you can search through 1000+ servers.

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                                  • A abnormalhumanbeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
                                    28 May 2025, 10:19

                                    Not part of Framasoft, but I am administrating a PeerTube platform/instance myself, and can anecdotally say, that it works rather well. Another factor is, that as an admin, you can set up to automatically mirror videos on other instances, when they meet certain criteria.

                                    For example, I have ~300GB set aside to mirror trending, new and most-watched videos of some instances, that I consider to have quality (EDIT: and reliably non-illegal) content regularily (e.g. spectra.video, makertube.net, peertube.wtf, etc.) That way, in addition to just users watching videos acting as a seeding peer via webtorrent, my own dedicated server in Finland among other professional servers with large bandwith also add to the resilience of the network, even for smaller instances.

                                    Anecdotally, I have also heard of some people running a PeerTube instance successfully from just a SBC, like a RaspPi or similar, from home, utilising the WebTorrent integratio you mentioned EDIT: As I have learned, while they are using P2P connections, it is no longer the WebTorrent protocol to their advantage. Here's a video I remember talking about this as an example.

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                                    meldrik@lemmy.wtf
                                    wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:34 last edited by meldrik@lemmy.wtf
                                    #60

                                    From PeerTube docs:

                                    At the beginning of PeerTube, we only supported Web Video (previously known as "WebTorrent") streaming. Due to several limitations of the Web Video system, we had to add HLS with P2P support. Unfortunately, we can't use the same video file for the two methods: we need to transcode 2 different versions of the file (a fragmented mp4 for HLS, and a raw mp4 for Web Videos).

                                    So if you enable Web Videos and HLS, the storage will be multiplied by 2.

                                    We recommend you to enable HLS (and disable Web Videos if you don't want to store 2 different versions of the same video resolution) because video playback in PeerTube web client is better:

                                    • Support P2P (using WebRTC) to exchange parts of the video with other users watching the same video to save server bandwidth
                                    • Support video redundancy by other PeerTube platforms
                                    • The player can adapt video resolution automatically
                                    • Video resolution change is smoother

                                    It’s probably not WebTorrent you are using, HLS.

                                    Also, thank you for running with redundancy! I need to get it setup myself, with some new SSDs.

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                                      28 May 2025, 08:45

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                                      What does Framasoft do?

                                      We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

                                      Among those tools are:

                                      • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
                                      • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
                                      • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
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                                      Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

                                      We develop PeerTube

                                      In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

                                      From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

                                      The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

                                      Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

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                                      Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
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                                      If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

                                      We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

                                      EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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                                      stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.works
                                      wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:40 last edited by
                                      #61

                                      Have you ever discussed about PeerTube with big creators of news videos, e.g. Euronews, France 24, DW, etc?

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                                        28 May 2025, 08:45

                                        Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

                                        Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

                                        What does Framasoft do?

                                        We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

                                        Among those tools are:

                                        • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
                                        • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
                                        • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
                                        • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

                                        Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

                                        We develop PeerTube

                                        In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

                                        From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

                                        The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

                                        Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

                                        Ask Us Anything!

                                        Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
                                        We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

                                        If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

                                        We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

                                        EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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                                        charger8232@lemmy.ml
                                        wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:41 last edited by
                                        #62

                                        Will the official PeerTube app for Android ever adopt Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Material 3 Expressive?

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                                          28 May 2025, 08:45

                                          Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

                                          Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.

                                          What does Framasoft do?

                                          We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.

                                          Among those tools are:

                                          • 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
                                          • many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
                                          • A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
                                          • Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;

                                          Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.

                                          We develop PeerTube

                                          In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.

                                          From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!

                                          The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.

                                          Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.

                                          Ask Us Anything!

                                          Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
                                          We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!

                                          If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).

                                          We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

                                          EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!

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                                          asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
                                          wrote on 28 May 2025, 14:43 last edited by asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
                                          #63

                                          Thank you for your amazing works.

                                          Are you planning on implementing a privacy friendly recommendation algorithm? It would ideally run locally on the client's device.

                                          edit: Oh and, if you haven't seen it yet, please see the PM I sent you.

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