PeerTube

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Hi !

(that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 30 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years. 

We aim to stay small (we prefer decentralization to ever-expanding growth), and we embrace our handcrafted/artisanal way of experimenting with everything we do.

What does Framasoft do?

We really think that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools to get to 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:

• 16 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our ;

• many ;

• A ;

• A , where we share our view 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!) ;

To learn more, check out our (roughly) translated .

We develop PeerTube and Mobilizon

In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing 2 Free-Libre and federated softwares:

• , an alternative to Facebook events and groups sans social features. We released Mobilizon v3 last month, ;

• , a self-hosted video and live-streaming platform that adds p2p to video broadcasting so you don't need Amazon data-center to host your videos. PeerTube v5 has just released (dec. 13th), !

For each of these projects, we have one not-even-full-time developer who leads the code, helped by other employees (on non-code related issues) and a community of contributors.

Framasoft is funded by donations (98.5% of our 2021 budget), mainly grassroots donations (87% of the 2021 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience.

It means that PeerTube and Mobilizon, are mostly funded by Frenchies for the world to enjoy.

Ask Us Anything!

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We are notoriously bad at marketing and self-promoting: this AMA is quite the challenge to us! But we love to be transparent, and brutally honest about ourselves, so let's do it.

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

• (volunteer member)

• (co-director and employee)

• (anonymous members) will answer them to the best of our abilities, from dec. 14th 4pm (CET) to when we are too tired ;).

If I host some public facing instances like Mastodon or PeerTube or Stirling PDF can someone easily exploit and overwhelm the server? like for example, my server has 50 GB storage, someone can easily use a script to keep uploading 100 GB of videos or blob data to it, thus making it very vulnerable(like I am using multiple dockers, and it might cost the whole server to not function)

Do I need strict anti-spam measures and rate limiting on all my public facing apps?

I ran a public Gitea instance and it quickly filled with ads(though no large volumes of data uploaded), so I have to disable registration.

I've been trying hard to create my own channel so I can get out of using YouTube for creating my own videos but when I try it's either my Fedora os doesn't want to download the packages I need to create my own channel or when I apply to other servers for their platform I don't get any response.

The decentralized YouTube alternative called Peertube could be a place for them to post new content without worry of ANY censoring being required. There isn’t a monetization model there, but is a place they could be free to promote their monetized projects and post videos. And with their following, it could be a huge boost to promoting the platform to others.

I want to follow some good peertube instances, like tech related. I already followed flipboard.video tilvids.com framatube.org

I don't want to arbitrarily follow instances as there ARE lots of seriously problematic Peertube instances just google search took me here