App crowdfunding — Let's go live!
We have just reached €55,000 in contributions for the PeerTube app crowdfunding!
We were not certain to reach it but you followed us until now... that means a lot to us, thank you very much! 🥰
Thanks to this completed goal, we will be able to work with peace of mind on every improvements we wanted to make to the application this year! 🎉
📹 Broadcast live streams using PeerTube app
Whether you want to cover an event happening in your street or to share your road trip with your community, you will soon be able to do so directly from the mobile app!
In addition to making broadcasting easier (no more need for computer or OBS), this enhancement will let you be more spontaneous: you will soon be able to start your live streams on the fly, in just a few seconds...! 🥳
For those of you who have been following the PeerTube project for a long time, maybe you remember we have already funded an app dedicated to PeerTube live streams, soberly called PeerTube Live.
At the time, we called on an external developer to work on this app: we never thought that one day we would maintain our own mobile app!
Today, we can't imagine not integrating this major feature for videomakers into our app. Fortunately, we will be able to draw on the previous work to implement it, even if that will still be a lot of work!
🫶 Next goal: Support Framasoft
We can imagine many of you have questions about this goal.
If you didn't know, PeerTube is developed by a small french non-profit called Framasoft (yeah, this is us!).
Our mission is to raise awareness about digital issues and cultural commons: to help people all around the world (even if we mostly work in France) to have a critical look on our digital society by sharing keys to understanding.
However, we define ourselves as being an organization "that does". We like to think but above all we seek to build solutions that enable everyone to take ownership on these issues and become emancipated.
That is why we built PeerTube: to allow everyone to get back control on their videos.
That is also why we have been running the "De-google-ify" campaign for the past 11 years, providing alternative services to those offered by Big Tech. These services, which are free and accessible to all, are among the largest non-commercial services in the world!
Finally, we opened Framaspace for the same reason: to provide a free collaborative space (based on Nextcloud) for small non-profits and collectives.
We seek to equip those who wish to build a fairer and more equitable world.
Of course, even though all of our services are free, they still have a cost. We have to pay each month for our 10 employees and the whole infrastructure we maintain.
To do so, our business model is based on solidarity: that's donations from thousands of people (mostly based in France) that fund us! That's thanks to all these people that PeerTube was born, that 2,000 collectives can enjoy Framaspace today or that more than 2,000,000 of people can freely use our services each month!
By supporting Framasoft, you support both PeerTube and all our other projects.
By doing so, you allow us to help to (digitally) empower those working for a better world.
To support Framasoft and help us to continue to act, you can:
- Follow our social media and share our posts: Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit & Lemmy
- Subscribe to our newsletter and share the latest PeerTube news!
- Share the crowdfunding campaign with your friends and family or on your social medias
- And indeed, if you can so, support us by making a donation!
Thank you very much! 💖
