<p>Today, when searching for videos on a PeerTube instance, it is hard to <strong>find content that is not in the federation bubble</strong> of that instance.</p> <p>We will create a <strong>server that indexes all videos</strong> and channels from all PeerTube instances that are listed on <a href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org/">the public directory</a>. The code for this indexing engine will be open source, so that anyone can host their own by setting their own eligibility rules.</p> <p>Each PeerTube instance administrator will be able to choose to <strong> use one of these indexing engines for their instance's search bar</strong>.</p> <p>In addition, <strong>announcements</strong> will allow instance administrators to display information to visitors.</p>
<p>While each new version of PeerTube has brought <a href="https://joinpeertube.org/faq#peertube-developers-did-not-add-moderation-tools">new moderation features</a>, there is still much to be done to <strong>facilitate moderation</strong> of content and accounts within the fediverse. That's why we want to <strong>dedicate a month to the development of new moderation tools</strong>.</p> <p>The list of features we have to develop or improve is long: reports logs and monitoring, moderation history, comments moderation, moderation reports related to an account, feedback on steps taken (or not) following a report, <strong>fight against spam</strong>, sharing blocklists of instances, accounts or content...</p> <p>This list is being built <a href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/labels/Component%3A%20Moderation%20%3Agodmode%3A"><strong>in collaboration with the community</strong></a>, and it is with these needs in mind that we will try to prioritize the moderation tools developed during this month.</p>
<p>While it is easy to embed a PeerTube video on a website or social media, the same cannot be said for playlists. We want to rework the <strong>embed and display of playlists</strong> on third party websites.</p> <p>We also want to <strong>allow two clips of the same video to be displayed in a playlist</strong>. Combined with the ability to extract a specific piece of video in a playlist, <strong>playlists will thus become very useful remixing tools</strong>, for example for educational purposes.</p> <p>Plugins allow anyone to contribute to new PeerTube features by coding them into PeerTube, and offer them to instance administrators. We want to <strong>improve the plugin system</strong> to offer more interaction possibilities.</p> <p>In order to put ourselves in their contributors' shoes, we are going to create a few plugins of our own, for example one to <strong>display information over a video to annotate it</strong> at a specific point in the viewing process.</p> <p>Finally, we want to work on <strong>selecting a set of plugins to showcase</strong> them on joinpeertube.org.</p>
<p>The biggest challenge of live streaming on PeerTube is to <strong>get the live stream to be peer-to-peer</strong>. After extensive testing, we believe this is possible.</p> <p>By using the HLS technology that has been built into the PeerTube video player since version 1.3, we believe we can <strong>create a live stream with one minute of lag between streamers and viewers</strong>.</p> <p>We want to lay the technological foundation for this live stream feature, so <strong>this first version of PeerTube Live will be minimalist</strong>. There will be no stream captation tools, no built-in chat, no react emojis...</p> <p>However, we want to make sure that <strong>once the live stream is over, the video will be processed and added to the creator's channel</strong>, with every requirement for proper federation checked.</p>
Moreover, Chocobozzz works on internal Framasoft's projects (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://framapad.org">Framapad</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://framatalk.org">Framatalk</a>, etc.). In other words, the management of PeerTube projects is operated by only one employee, who has other responsabilities in addition to his workload.
Consequently, PeerTube development and/or management of websites associated with the PeerTube project (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://joinpeertube.org">joinpeertube.org</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org">instances.joinpeertube.org</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://search.joinpeertube.org/">search.joinpeertube.org</a>, etc.) may not please everyone (in particular because of different ideas, ideologies of cultures).
The ambition remains to be <strong>a free and decentralized alternative</strong>: the goal of an alternative is not to replace, but to propose something else, with different values, in parallel to what already exists.
Bandwidth: can be mitigated using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-following-instances?id=instances-redundancy">PeerTube redundancy system</a> and cache servers that serve video static files in front of your PeerTube instance
<a href="#what-are-the-peertube-features-for-administrators">Yes it does!</a> Since the first stable release of PeerTube in October 2018, <strong>every release</strong> added or improved moderation features:
<strong>PeerTube 2.2</strong> greatly improved video abuses management (search, abuses display, actions on the video or account etc), added moderation hooks and helpers in the plugins API and Framasoft developed an experimental <em>Auto mute</em> plugin based on public lists.
Anyone with a modicum of technical skills can host a PeerTube server, aka an instance. Each instance hosts its users and their videos. In this way, <strong>every instance is created, moderated and maintained independently by various administrators.</strong>
Most importantly, <strong>you are a person to PeerTube, not a product in need of profiling so as to be stuck in video loops.</strong> For example, PeerTube doesn't use any biased recommendation algorithms to keep you online for hours on end.
All of this is made possible by Peertube's free/libre license (GNU-AGPL). Its code is a digital "common", that belongs to everybody, instead of a secret formula that belongs to Google (in the case of Youtube) or to Vivendi/Bolloré (Dailymotion). This free/libre license <strong>guarantees our fundamental freedoms as users and allows many contributors to offer evolutions and new features.</strong>
Direct contact with a human-scale hoster allows for two things: you no longer are the client of a huge tech company, and <strong>you can nurture a special relationship with your hoster, who distributes your data.</strong>
The PeerTube software can, whenever necessary, use a peer-to-peer protocol (P2P) to broadcast viral videos, <strong>lowering the load of their hosts.</strong>
