Bonjour, c/[email protected]!

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!

Comment est la météo chez toi ? Chez moi, il fait gris.

Oh no, I barely understand 1/3 of what you said. I’m getting there.

Comment est la météo chez toi ? Chez moi, il fait gris.

Oh no, I barely understand 1/3 of what you said. I’m getting there.

Comment est la météo chez toi ? Vois-tu le soleil ? Chez moi, le soleil est derrière les nuages.

La meteo est……meh. Le soleil apparait tres petit. J'esperot le soleil

Peut-être demain.

Kikou @Framasoft

- (When) is PeerTube going to move away from (Microsoft's) Github?
- Is it expected for the PeerTube mobile app users to have an account on a PeerTube instance or will there possibly be in the future "local subscriptions" to channels stored in the app, a feed of videos from the pinned instances, maybe even commenting using a microbloging account…? Maybe that's a different app, for someone else to make.

what are the problems that need solutions for mobile uploads to be supported?

i do music video production entirely on ipad and have yet to find an aapp that supports mobile uploads. the web UI never seems to complete the upload.

Is landscape mode coming to Peertube app on iOS?

(Not a question)
I have used services hosted by Framasoft many times, but I wasn't aware that you were also the developers of PeerTube!
I have almost stopped using Y*utube and I've been trying to use PeerTube more and more. The main hurdle is finding content, which I'm sure will get easier and easier as the platform gets adopted and known in the fediverse and beyond.
Congratulations for you efforts promoting Free and Libre software, keep up the good work!

Merci pour votre travail, c'est génial !

Have you ever thought about offering compute capabilities (with OpenLambda for ex) or hosting web services ?
I'd personnally pay for that, and there's a need for European cloud alternatives !