PeerTube 1.0 is the realization of the commitment we made in October 2017 to take PeerTube from an alpha version (personal project and proof of concept that a federated video platform could work) to a 1.0 version in October 2018 (which does not mean "final version", but "version considered stable and distributable").
PeerTube is developed by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://framasoft.org">Framasoft</a>, a French non-profit popular educational organization on digital issues.
It employs a developer, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz">Chocobozzz</a>, who works since 2018 on PeerTube projects:
Help (or get help) other instances using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#instances-redundancy">PeerTube redundancy</a>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://packages.joinpeertube.org/api/v1/ping">PeerTube plugins index</a> development and maintenance;
Federation offers another benefit: <strong>everyone becomes independent</strong>. Zaïd, Catherin, Solar and yourself can make your own rules, your own Terms of Services (for example, one can imagine a MeowTube where dogs videos are strictly forbidden 😉).