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Last week, we ran an #AMA (Ask Me Anything) on #Lemmy: lemmy.world/post/30376256

We had a fun time answering to your questions! We were able to express ourselves on topics we're rarely questionned.

Thanks a lot to everyone who has shown interest in #PeerTube or #Framasoft!

lemmy.world[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything! - Lemmy.WorldBonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml! Framasoft [https://framasoft.org/] (that’s us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years. ### What does Framasoft do? [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Framasoft_Logo.svg/240px-Framasoft_Logo.svg.png] We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives. Among those tools are: * 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website [https://degooglisons-internet.org/en], including Framadate [https://framadate.org/] and Framaforms [https://framaforms.org]… ; * many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ; * A blog [https://framablog.org/], where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ; * Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ; Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute [https://joinpeertube.org/contribute]. ### We develop PeerTube [https://joinpeertube.org/img/brand.png] In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube [https://joinpeertube.org/], a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech’s video platforms. From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions! The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released [https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.0] at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.framasoft.peertube], F-Droid [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/]) and iOS [https://apps.apple.com/en/app/peertube/id6737834858]. Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people’s pockets. ### Ask Us Anything! Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project [https://joinpeertube.org/news/roadmap-2025]. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign [https://support.joinpeertube.org/] which focuses on our mobile app. We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps! If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first). We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

La semaine dernière, nous répondions à vos questions (en anglais) sur #Lemmy : lemmy.world/post/30376256

C'était chouette ! Nous avons pu nous exprimer sur des points où nous sommes rarement questionné·es.

Merci beaucoup à toutes les personnes s'étant intéressé·es à #PeerTube ou #Framasoft !

lemmy.world[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything! - Lemmy.WorldBonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml! Framasoft [https://framasoft.org/] (that’s us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years. ### What does Framasoft do? [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Framasoft_Logo.svg/240px-Framasoft_Logo.svg.png] We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives. Among those tools are: * 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website [https://degooglisons-internet.org/en], including Framadate [https://framadate.org/] and Framaforms [https://framaforms.org]… ; * many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ; * A blog [https://framablog.org/], where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ; * Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ; Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute [https://joinpeertube.org/contribute]. ### We develop PeerTube [https://joinpeertube.org/img/brand.png] In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube [https://joinpeertube.org/], a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech’s video platforms. From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions! The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released [https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.0] at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.framasoft.peertube], F-Droid [https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/]) and iOS [https://apps.apple.com/en/app/peertube/id6737834858]. Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people’s pockets. ### Ask Us Anything! Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project [https://joinpeertube.org/news/roadmap-2025]. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign [https://support.joinpeertube.org/] which focuses on our mobile app. We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps! If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first). We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).

EDIT2: My first edit was wrong, I thought I had the time wrong, but no.

There's still around 75 mins left until the people from #Framasoft will start answering the questions, but their #Lemmy #AMA already has more than 50 comments, with some insightful and interesting questions already posed.

If you have missed that it is happening until now, join the questions or browse the answers later here:

lemmyverse.link/lemmy.abnormal

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Country Music has often employed “white-washing”…
To try & erase its true history…
It seems the #ama wants us to forget black country pioneers!

"Tell me you know nothing about the actual roots of #countrymusic w/o telling me you don't know the roots... like, who wrote this script?
What in the #Project2025 hell is this? ... Behind every founding father & mother of Country music stands a Black musician playing Black roots music, strategically hidden in the mix."

apple.news/AAXH2exoETe-VjzCaUn

apple.newsHere's Why Shaboozey Side-Eyed That 'Carter Family Invented Country Music' Line at the AMAs — Rolling Stone“When you uncover the true history of country music, you find a story so powerful that it cannot be erased,” the “Bar Song” star said the day after the awards show

ICYMI

Our first ever Board Game Publisher Interview.

We hosted a live AMA with Marc Specter of Grand Gamers Guild who is a previous sponsor or our podcast.

youtu.be/0LdWFlkpgl8?si=GyFZej

Note this was recorded before the whole tariff thing, so don't expect any discussion on that.

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This is too hard to answer, I listen to so much music and I don't have a single favorite song. However, to give a sort of answer, the first song I fell in love with as a little girl, and one I still love to this day is 'Sowing the Seeds of Love' by Tears for Fears. 🌻