Hi!
We're currently working on an "official" app! More information about what we're working on this year on the PT blog: https://joinpeertube.org/news/peertube-future-2024
Sorry! I (Hi, I am Booteille) totally forgot to add the explanation comment!
Here we go:
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.
Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.
If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.
The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!
Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.
If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:
- report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
- submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
- Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
- Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.
Hi!
We plan to host "for free" 10 000 spaces on our Nextcloud infracstructure before the end of 2025. They are dedicated to small collectives to help them free themselves from Google/Microsoft/Dropbox/... We actually host ~700 spaces.
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Hi!
As @lehenry stated, the source code for both apps and server parts are available on our forge and under a FLOSS (Free Libre and Open Source Software) license (Specificaly, the GNU GPL v3 license for the app part and GNU AGPL v3 for the the server one).
So you can copy, modify, distribute source code: you're free. (But you need to respect the license conditions, of course!)
This first version of Lokas is a Proof of Concept, meaning it's not our finished vision of what Lokas should be.
If people express their desire for us to continue this project, we'll probably put more resources (energy, time, money) to enhance Lokas (Some possible enhancements are expressed at the end of the blog post), and one of the possible action would be allowing people to use their own server. We can even imagine having a fully offline experience, using only the user's device resources to do the transcription.
We have literally no interest in exploiting any of user's data. Framasoft is a non-for-profit organization acting since 20 years to help people get back control on their devices and digital lives. We are totally against data exploitation and surveillance capitalism.
As usual, in the end, it's just a question of trust if you want to use Lokas app (and our server) or not. And that's totally fine if you don't trust us!
-- Booteille