Check out their news post about reaching stretch goal number 3 here!

As of posting this, it sits at €61,437 - which means they met their first 3 stretch goals, which gives us these features for the coming mobile App:

• Play videos in background
• Cast your videos to your TV
• Get notified of newly released content
• Change the video definition
• Manage all channels of your account
• Edit video chapters, subtitles, info, etc.
• Get detailed stats of your content
• Upload new videos from your mobile
• Set up & manage livestream
• Use device cameras & connection
• Stream live from your hand
• No more need for a secondary mobile app dedicated to live streams

With all stretch goals that give “rewards” met, why is it still good to reach their final stretch target? To further help everything they do in providing a free (as in freedom and as in beer in this case) alternative to common internet services. In their own words, from their blog post about reaching 55k:

🫶 Next goal: Support Framasoft

We can imagine many of you have questions about this goal.

If you didn’t know, PeerTube is developed by a small french non-profit called Framasoft (yeah, this is us!). Our mission is to raise awareness about digital issues and cultural commons: to help people all around the world (even if we mostly work in France) to have a critical look on our digital society by sharing keys to understanding.

However, we define ourselves as being an organization “that does”. We like to think but above all we seek to build solutions that enable everyone to take ownership on these issues and become emancipated.

That is why we built PeerTube: to allow everyone to get back control on their videos.

That is also why we have been running the “De-google-ify” campaign for the past 11 years, providing alternative services to those offered by Big Tech. These services, which are free and accessible to all, are among the largest non-commercial services in the world!

Finally, we opened Framaspace for the same reason: to provide a free collaborative space (based on Nextcloud) for small non-profits and collectives.

We seek to equip those who wish to build a fairer and more equitable world.

Of course, even though all of our services are free, they still have a cost. We have to pay each month for our 10 employees and the whole infrastructure we maintain. To do so, our business model is based on solidarity: that’s donations from thousands of people (mostly based in France) that fund us! That’s thanks to all these people that PeerTube was born, that 2,000 collectives can enjoy Framaspace today or that more than 2,000,000 of people can freely use our services each month!

So, if you still have some money lying around and haven’t donated yet, check out the link to help them meet the final goal. As a motivation, I like to think about where closed source software and proprietary services basically blackmailed me into giving them money through subscription services - and how even a fraction of that money given here can help them and others far more in the long run.