We believe in the public utility of PeerTube, so much so that we commit to working on it for six months to make this v3 happen, even if we must do it with our own funds (which <a href="https://framablog.org/2019/11/12/peertube-has-worked-twice-as-hard-to-free-your-videos-from-youtube/">we had already done for v2</a>).
<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>
<strong>Framasoft</strong> (that's us!) is a French non-for-profit organization created in 2004, dedicated <strong>to popular education</strong> on digital matters. Our small association (under 40 members, under 10 employees) is known to have made the <a href="https://degooglisons-internet.org">"De-google-ify the Internet" project</a>, offering 34 ethical and alternative online tools.
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.
PeerTube is just the name of the software. You can install it on your server, and choose the name you want. For example, Framasoft's PeerTube instance is named <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://framatube.org/">Framatube</a>.
You will hugely benefit from at least a second thread though, because of transcoding. Transcoding is very cpu intensive. It serves two purposes on a PeerTube instance: it ensures all videos can be played optimally in the web interface, and it generates different resolutions for the same video. PeerTube support for offloading transcoding to other machines is <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/947">being discussed</a>, but not yet implemented.
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 1.4</strong> added a plugin system, and made sure plugins can for instance automatically blacklist videos or reject comments based on any rule (similar to Pleroma MRF);
<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.
