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Application development in Flutter: Publishing to application stores (2/2)

Publishing a video streaming application from the Fediverse on various application stores was like navigating an obstacle course.

Due to the stores' sometimes very strict policies and the sensitivity surrounding video content — particularly that generated or broadcast by third parties — we had to exercise extreme caution. Apple and Google consider us, as the application's publisher, responsible for all content accessed via the application. They are particularly strict on this issue with regard to video formats, much more so than with podcast applications or web browsers.
Here's an overview of the various stages, from the initial submission to the production launch.

While developing the PeerTube application, we gained experience in choosing technologies and encountered obstacles created by certain decisions. We share these insights here.

35 000! Thanks to your many contributions, we have reached the €35,000 goal for our crowdfunding!
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! 🩷

So... the second collective goal has been achieved! 🎉

New design for video management and publication pages, rework of the display and filter system for sensitive content… this new version is ready for the summer!

We are thrilled to announce you that thanks to your contributions we've reached our first crowdfunding goal! 🥳

On the behalf of the whole team, thank you a thousand times!

This goal is a very important first step to allow PeerTube to reach a wider adoption! Indeed, this goal was focused on enhancing the user experience and unlocking a YouTube Premium-like experience... but free and available to everyone!

Here are the details of what your donations will make possible this year.

Thanks to your support, we (Framasoft, a small french not-for-profit) have been developing PeerTube for seven years! From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now used and acknowledged by many institutions!

Of course, we've still a lot to do, and if the PeerTube community is growing by the day, we can already see some crucial steps that would help PeerTube to reach a wider audience!

With your help, let's put PeerTube in everyone's pocket!

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Today, our not-for-profit (Framasoft) is proud to present v1 of the PeerTube mobile application, 4 months after its first release! It's the work of a single developer, Wicklow, thanks in no small part to your feedback (and support). Let's have a look at what's new!

We (Framasoft) are proud to present the 2025 roadmap for the project! PeerTube is improving thanks to (only) two developers, the financial support of donors, the support of the NLnet foundation, and external contributions, whether in the form of code, design (hi La Coopérative des Internets), or user feedback from hundreds of people! Thanks to all of you!

In the last few months, we released the v7 of PeerTube (7.1 is also out!) and our official mobile app (with a major update incoming).

Both those projets benefited from external expertise (in design and mobile development ). Plus, both implied updating or even creating user documentation to facilitate adoption.

So here are the links to share those resources that show how the cuttlefish seaweed sausage is made!

We're excited to release version 7.1 of PeerTube, which continues to evolve graphically, but also to simplify your discoverability! Let's take a closer look.

With its brand new design, PeerTube's new interface isn't just prettier (although it is). It is also simpler, easier to use and understand and more accessible. Welcome to a new era of this software that empowers creators to get, control and connect their own video platforms.

Today, at Framasoft (bonjour!), we publish the very first version of the PeerTube Mobile app for android and iOS. A lot of care went into its conception, to help a wider audience watch videos and discover platforms, while not getting their attention (and data) exploited.

This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :)

This new version is all about making your life easier. Easier moderation, easier subtitle creation and easier video highlighting. Let's take a look!

We're pleased to announce the 6.1 release of PeerTube 🙂

In addition to the integration of account import/export and other great features that we'll detail in this blog post, this version fixes 2 important security vulnerabilities concerning the ActivityPub federation (detailed at the end of the article).

We therefore recommend that you update your instances as soon as possible!

Bonjour,
We are Framasoft, the French non-profit developing the PeerTube software!

You have been waiting for this for years, and so have we...
... welcome to the PeerTube Ecosystem Newsletter! jingle

In this newsletter, we'll share with you some news, videos, projects or anything else related to the PeerTube ecosystem that we're excited about!

We have many admins or uploaders wondering how many concurrent viewers a PeerTube instance can handle and how much its P2P feature can help the server to broadcast a live/video.

It's the reason why, with the support of NLnet and Octopuce, we have been running a real world stress tests on a regular PeerTube instance. Of course with the aim of optimizing the software, but first and foremost to be able to confidently give the number of concurrent viewers a PeerTube instance should be able to handle and understand how the P2P behaves in such conditions.

We chose to simulate 1,000 viewers as it is a symbolic number, but also because it covers 99% of the streams broadcasted on Twitch in 2022. PeerTube would then be able to technically handle 99% of these use cases, which is a large number of users ;)

If you would rather skip the technical stuff, you can jump directly to the conclusion.

Developing an ethical and emancipating alternative to YouTube, Twitch or Vimeo without Surveillance Capitalism’s means is a huge undertaking. Especially for a small French not-for-profit that already manages several projects to promote digital commons.

We (Bonjour! We are Framasoft!) have been developing PeerTube for six years. Two weeks after releasing the sixth version of the software, let’s take a step back on six years of work, examine the huge opportunity that the present times hold for PeerTube, and look towards what we plan to do next year to prepare for its success... if you give us the means to get there!

It's #givingtuesday, so we're giving you PeerTube v6 today! PeerTube is the software we develop for creators, media, institutions, educators... to manage their own video platform, as an alternative to YouTube and Twitch.

The sixth major version is being released today and we are very proud! It is the most ambitious one since we added peer-to-peer livestreaming. There is a good reason for that: we packed this v6 with features inspired by your ideas!

We are so eager to present all the work we achieved that we'll get right into it. But stay tuned: in two weeks, we'll take more time to talk about PeerTube's history, the state of this project and the great plans we have for its future!

This version comes with a small technical challenge that we're proud to have overcome! This new feature won't be as visible as a graphical change, but it will make hosting a PeerTube platform easier, more resilient and cheaper.

Let's see what it's all about :)

Version 5.1 of PeerTube has been released! On the menu: moderation of account creation, a button to resume live broadcasting, improved management of external authentication plugins... and other useful developments. Let's take a tour of the new features!

We (Framasoft, a small not-for-profit association!) are proud to present our roadmap for the developments and side projects we have planned for PeerTube in 2023. This roadmap combines both the progress we wanted to make to the software and the proposals you have sent us over the last few months.

It is important to note that we are dedicating only one developer to PeerTube (yes, only one!), PeerTube being one of more than fifty projects led by our association.

We, Framasoft, have been developing the PeerTube software for 5+ years.

Framasoft is a French non-profit of 38 members (10 employees, 28 volunteers), PeerTube is one of our 50+ projects, and we do all this work with only one developer (who is not event full time on PeerTube). Please note that maybe 2 or 3 among us understand, more or less fluently, German.

On dec. 19th, a journalist from Tagesspiegel Background informed us that a study by German researchers on the use of PeerTube by right-wing extremists was about to be published. He asked us 3 questions about the scope of the problem and what could be done, and we answered him that day.

On dec. 20th, we have been able to get this study (it is available online here) and translate it. This is why it took us time to write and publish a collective statement.

First of all, we would like to thank the researchers of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue for their work. The more we will gain knowledge of how disinformation manipulators and right-wing extremists use PeerTube, the more the PeerTube communities will learn how to effectively protect themselves from such content.

Shared knowledge is shared power.