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Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!

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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[–] Penny7@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hi! One day I want to move from YouTube to PeerTube (in the process of getting some things done before I do) and when I was trying to explore it, one thing that frustrated me was trying to search for anything on the platform.

I tried to do a searches for random topics and the top search results instances/servers that had nothing to do with what I was looking for.

This frustration was also echoed by somebody with experience on the platform that I ended up talking with. They were able to direct me to the specific instances I'd want because they're a part of them too, but it shouldn't be so difficult to find what you want, so my question is are you trying to fix the search engine on your platform to make it more user friendly so that most of your platform isn't seemingly word of mouth (so to speak)?

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, and, of course a very important second question from me: What are your favourite dinosaurs?

[–] Framasoft@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus for sure!

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What are your plans to improve the user experience?

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Salut! Ca va? (Learning French)

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I have been wanting to degoogle for a while and it has been a slow process. But youtube has been a big one for me. In large part because, ironically, I cannot get freetube to work with a VPN. Peertube, sounds better.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey, guys, I know I'm too late to the party, but my city just announced that they spent half a million dollars of Microsoft office licenses last year. I think that's nuts. I want to try to persuade them to switch non-power-users to LibreOffice suite and reduce their office licenses by over 90%. Do you have any advice, examples, or selling points that can help me persuade them to cut Microsoft office licenses instead of literal firefighters? And, seeing as this is late, I'd welcome anybody answering. Thanks!

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] double_quack@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Are you hiring? How can I get professionally involved?

[–] dragospirvu75@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hello guys! Congratulations for your work on so many services! I have a question about Mobilizon: if I want to see events from Bucharest, is there a way to see events from all the instances, or do I have to search on each instance? Thank you!

[–] bbk_9@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi! Thank you for all your work :)

I'm wondering if 30 seconds is a reasonable latency for live streaming on a raspberry pi 5 instance ?

And if I want to store the videos on another drive, is it so simple as just changing the path for "/var/www/peertube/storage" in the production.yaml file ?

Finally, is it possible to connect to the live session chat with another fediverse instance (mastodon or lemmy) ?

[–] Framasoft@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] aev_software@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Will your games eventually support mobile-first concepts? I've tried the first handful of your framagames offerings and none of them work on a mobile phone. If that is indicative of your overall work, I fear the only users you'll attract will be staunch keyboard and desktop users. While that was the norm 20 years ago when you started, the landscape has changed. Today, most users' primary and only compute device is their mobile phone. Please consider expanding your reach and accommodating the needs of today's audience.

[–] Framasoft@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Framasoft@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Will you guys add þe ability to login to an instance þat isn’t provided in þe app already into þe ios app?

Est-ce que vous allez ajouter la possibilité de se connecter à une instance qui n'est pas fournie dans l'application déjà dans l'application ios?

[–] Framasoft@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, we are looking into allowing users to add their platforms manually (as you can already do on Android). We just don't have an ETA yet!

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