The application crowdfunding was a success!

You did it!

Thanks to your support, we achieved all three of our fundraising goals for developing features in the PeerTube application!
We now have the necessary resources to work on it during the year!

Throughout the campaign, your enthusiasm has truly warmed our hearts. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to its success, from those who talked about the campaign on social media, to the various news outlets that relayed the information to their audiences and the hundreds of people who made a donation!

Furthermore, through this crowdfunding campaign, we aimed to introduce PeerTube and Framasoft to individuals who may not be familiar with them, particularly in the English-speaking world. Thanks to your many voices and your help, we've succeeded!

You really are wonderful... thank you! ❤️

How your donations will help

Here is an overview of the features we'll be able to develop, thanks to you:

• Free PeerTube "Premium" enhancements for everyone, which allow you to play your video in background, download it, change its resolution, etc.
• Adding a video manager to the application, enabling you to publish your videos directly from your smartphone!
• The ability to broadcast lives via the app!

We also had a fourth, slightly more "meta" objective: to support Framasoft.

We saw this objective as a bit of a bonus, which would of course help the PeerTube project, but whose main aim was to make Framasoft and its actions more visible. Emphasize that PeerTube is not just a technical project, but part of a broader vision that we have at Framasoft.
The vision of a digital environment that empowers everyone.

Despite the fact that this "meta" aspect didn't seem directly related to PeerTube, you supported us in achieving it... and what a support it was!

On behalf of the entire Framasoft team, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you!

In a nutshell

During the three weeks of the campaign, the PeerTube project continued to live on via:

• Our participation in Fireside Fedi show
• The release of the v7.2 of the software, including major enhancements in the way to identify sensitive content.
• More recently, v7.2.1 was released, which fixed some issues and integrated new translations.
• Our participation in two AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Lemmy and Reddit. These were high points for us and we were thrilled to be able to answer to questions we'd rarely been asked!
• The publication of two articles in which we shared our experience developing the mobile app. Part 1 - Part 2

And now?

The rest of this year's adventure is fully planned.

For the mobile app, we'll be spending the rest of the year developing features you've enabled us to fund! While some of these will arrive fairly quickly, others, such as live broadcasts, are unlikely to be released before the end of the year or early next year.

On the PeerTube software side, we've already published the roadmap for 2025.
Many improvements are planned for the coming months!

To stay informed about developments and improvements to the PeerTube project, follow us on social media (Mastodon, Bluesky and other platforms) or subscribe to our newsletter.

Finally, we count on you to promote the PeerTube project, install the mobile app, and ensure that more people discover spaces where they can control their digital lives, including posting videos.

Thank you all for following us in this campaign, and thank you again for supporting us during it!
Without you, PeerTube would never have been possible. Thanks to you, we'll put PeerTube in everyone's pocket!

The Framasoft team