For now, it’s mostly only the possibility writing in the “About” page of the server ways to support it, possibly with a banner above videos to encourage people to give money. Creators can also add a “Support” button below videos to tell viewers how to support them.

But I think some people are working on requiring people to login and have a subscription to view videos.

I don’t know of an existing plugin that injects pre-roll ads, but it could probably already be developed with the current available APIs.

Oh, sorry to hear this. We’ll make sure to follow your observations to the team.

As we can now afford to pay designers, some parts of the interface are being improved, but it’s a slow progress. Here are some resources on our work in v7: https://joinpeertube.org/news/share-ressources

About finding your favorite YouTube creators on PeerTube, this is still hard, as they’re probably aren’t as much as you think they’d be, if you think the scraping tool would be very useful. Using browser extensions such as https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/peertubeify/ which redirect you to a PeerTube version of a YouTube video could give you a view of the content currently on both platforms.

Otherwise, accounts such as Fedivideo mentioned in this thread are doing a very good job to curate content you might like, and we want to help that (with our limited resources).

Our developers were writing Free Software on their free time before they got hired, because Framasoft knew them through their free-time productions, but obviously not everybody can do that, and we’ve very lucky to have an economic model which allows us to pay developers properly.

Yup, we’re been there a while! <3

Thanks!

Yes, you can setup an instance yourself and activate redundancy for the instances you’d like to help : https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#platforms-redundancy

We’re fine on giving people the choice to use the algorithm they want. Today our « Hot » sorting type is using a derivative of Reddit’s old algorithm, but we could add new ones. However, it takes time to focus on this topic, so it’s not a priority.

I don’t believe it would make a big difference. Platforms have made it very convenient for content creators to view all kind of insights on their audience, hence they might want to support the need for accounts.

Most likely not replace the existing digital environment, but we know that the current digital landscape and its uses could evolve very quickly (whether due to the invention of something new/negative or geopolitical issues). When such events occur, it is important that the available alternatives avoid well-known flaws, and the fediverse has a lot to offer in this regard. But we must continue to work on improving the minor annoyances that federation brings.

The digital mediation sector is not exactly thriving, but there are still opportunities to organize events that address the issue of privacy with the general public. On a more technical side, there are also companies that are specifically positioning themselves on these issues.

Hi,

The Framagames website was set up a long time ago and it only features FLOSS games made by external devs, we do very very little development apart from PeerTube.

As almost all of our services are built on third-party free software, our lack of adaptability to mobile devices is simply a reflection of a general lack of expertise in this area within the free software community. However, we are well aware that we missed the boat on this topic many years ago.

That is why we are exploring the publication of mobile applications, first with PeerTube, as in this case, but also with Lokas, an audio transcription application.

Finally, several of our services are also aging and need to be replaced by other solutions that are more compatible with mobile use.

Perhaps it’s because we explain our vision clearly and have demonstrated that we have kept our promises over the years. But above all, we are very lucky to have them.

We prefer monthly donations because they help us maintain financial stability throughout the year, whereas one-time donations tend to come in mainly when we run fundraising campaigns like this one (which means that some months our cash flow is low).

Thank you for your support!

Hi!

We’re not for now but we’d probably look for a full-stack dev in the future! Nothing sure yet!

Keep an eye on our social media if you’re interested in this position!

Hi!

There are different projects we’re working on:

• We now work a lot with a design agency called La Coopérative Des Internets to improve PeerTube design. They helped us a lot to have an interface easier to understand for non-tech-savvy people! We still have progress to do but are actively working on it!
• We want to improve the user experience on mobile. We know most people watch video on their mobile phones so that’s why we are now putting resources to develop an official mobile app. You can learn more about our plans for the mobile app in the crowdfunding campaign we just launched!
• We also want to improve the way to discover content on PeerTube. First steps are not easy enough now and are working (with designers, again) on this subject. As an example, we’re trying to improve Sepia Search so it’s easier to discover new content on it. (No ETA to share yet)
• We also get inspired by community efforts and other Fediverse projects! So if you’ve ideas about how to improve the situation, feel free to share them on our dedicated feedback website!

Monetization is a complicated and potentially sensitive topic that we have not yet addressed. However, this is not the only reason why YouTube is in its dominant position; even with monetization, the network effect of this platform will always remain.

PeerTube today meets the demand for video hosting (e.g., the market where Vimeo is positioned), but is not really a distribution channel with social features like YouTube.

While our goal is not to provide a definitive answer to this shortcoming, we are considering possibilities for integration with third-party payment or subscription platforms (such as Patreon) to make it easy to restrict videos to subscribers, for example. That’s something we’re thinking of, but is very far from being done.

Finally, there is already the Bunseed project (website exclusively in French, sorry) which is looking into this issue and has a prototype based on Ghost (publishing, subscription, email) + PeerTube + payment platform (such as Stripe).

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!—

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

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.

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).