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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!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you guys considered making a way for content creators to monetize their content? I am not one myself but I realize it's often a source of income they depend on and would be willing to use money to see such content myself.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i'd love to self-host an instance, but my uplink bandwidth is rather poor (~20mbps at peak)

for a small instance how well could i do?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not from Framasoft, but those speeds should work well enough for personal projects, depending on what resolutions you want to provide the videos at - but in general, the video compression + P2P sharing of people watching the video + other Servers potentially providing redundancy if your content goes "viral" at some point should make this easily possible with those upload speeds.

Also check the question + answers here, which is relevant to your situation: https://lemmy.spv.sh/post/8543/15298

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

One thing that might get more content creators on PeerTube could be “advertising” as not just a video platform, but also a backup service.

I’m guessing most content creators have their original video and video project files backed up somewhere. Why not have the ability to use PeerTube for that?

You can already have PeerTube store the original video file, when you upload it, something YouTube can’t do.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks for your work!

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what does augmenting user retention mean in practice?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice, thank you ! Subscribed to the channel :-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Thank YOU! :-)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

will you try to modernize the office suit (framacalc etc) like you did peertube?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are your plans to improve the user experience?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Love your work on Peertube!

Why doesn’t the penguin have a snorkel? Why does he need to bring the animals under the water? Why is the elephant on the other side?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Looking at the art. It looks like David Revoy (artist of the libre comic "Pepper & Carrot") has made this so you'd have to ask him. ;)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not much to say, I love your work! Thank you for what you do and for existing!

Ah yes, maybe something: I think the fediverse suffers from a lack of recommendation/search system. We are a bit burned out from the terrible consequences of the for profit recommendations of Youtube and Twitter, but I think a system that would be actually controlled by the user would be a very precious discovery and adoption tool. Is there something like that being worked on somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's barebones and very much a WIP - and not official - but for PeerTube, there is PeerTube Picks, a Firefox add-on, that tries to provide a very simple "algorithm" experience, which may grow to become what you are looking for.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Salut! Ca va? (Learning French)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Learning French

Moi aussi! Quelle methode utilisez-vous?

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