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Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

#11
post #8

10,000 euros isn't a lot of money. I'm going to interpret the enthusiastic upvoting of this post as being more about what it implies when steady and serious collectives like the Debian project start signalling that something is important. There needs to be better software infrastructure and it needs to be open source (and, indeed, free). It is hard not to like Debian. It is wonderful to see that focused, principled,…

Yeah, not to rain too much on Peertube’s parade but in my locale (Sweden) that is about one month’s worth of salary for a developer. And in other locales such as Silicon Valley it’s even less (maybe 1-2 weeks of salary?). Then again in some locales that kind of money would go a much longer way of course.

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

#16

IMO, PeerTube will never become popular due to its decentralized nature.

Centralised platforms have utterly failed us though, and have become a way to manage information centrally - someone decides what you can or can't see/read/know about.

Decentralised is really the only option for an informed humanity. In the long run, this has to be the answer.

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

#17
post #5

Anyone want to take bets that Google would eventually try to deprecate whatever API peertube needs because of some plausibly true "security reason" in the next few years?

I doubt it's ever gonna become a thing Google even notices.

duckduckgo

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt it's ever gonna become a thing Google even notices.

duckduckgo

Not equivalent at all. DDG gathers the content they provide themselves. Video sites rely on users for content, which is why critical mass matters. Why get 100 views on peertube when you can 100000 views on Youtube?

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

#19
post #11
post #8

10,000 euros isn't a lot of money. I'm going to interpret the enthusiastic upvoting of this post as being more about what it implies when steady and serious collectives like the Debian project start signalling that something is important. There needs to be better software infrastructure and it needs to be open source (and, indeed, free). It is hard not to like Debian. It is wonderful to see that focused, principled,…

Yeah, not to rain too much on Peertube’s parade but in my locale (Sweden) that is about one month’s worth of salary for a developer. And in other locales such as Silicon Valley it’s even less (maybe 1-2 weeks of salary?). Then again in some locales that kind of money would go a much longer way of course.

I live in Sweden too. Is that true? I thought it was more around 4k EUR. Or am I being lowballed here...

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

#20
post #2

Are there other associations similar to Framasoft? In Europe or across the globe.

I heard about:

https://nlnet.nl/

"It spawned the world-renowned NLnet Labs, and supported great open source projects like Jitsi, ARPA2, WireGuard, NoScript, Tor Hidden Services, GPLv3, GNUnet, and webOD"

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