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Father of two, husband, gamer, lover of free software, and willing teacher.

Creator of Fireside Fedi Show: https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi

Chief Executive Officer BT Free: https://btfree.org

Main Sitehttps://ozoned.net
Fireside Fedihttps://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi
BT Freehttps://btfree.org

I’m biased, but I recommend my own content! :D

@[email protected] - [email protected] @[email protected] - [email protected]

I run TubeFree.org and have created a Peertube chain of trust as well. So I’m pulling in from multiple sources and have an index others can use if they’d like. https://ptindex.btfree.org

The code is open source so you can also build your own if you’d like. https://git.btfree.org/BTFree/PTIndex

Always looking to add more servers though if anyone has recommendations.

OwncastSentry - Matrix Bot that alerts to Owncast streams

https://git.logal.dev/LogalDeveloper/OwncastSentry

OwncastSentry is a Matrix bot that you can invite to your channel or DM directly right now ( @owncastsentry:logal.dev ) , with full encryption support, and request that it notify you when your favorite streamers are live.

OwncastSentry

A Maubot plugin for monitoring Owncast streams and sending Matrix messages when they go live.

git.logal.dev

Owlbot - A self-hosted Owncast chat bot

https://git.logal.dev/LogalDeveloper/Owlbot

Owlbot is a self-hosted Owncast bot that is built similar to Streamlabs Nightbot so those that are used to that bot can host their own and be familiar with the bot syntax.

The bot is fully extensible allowing someone to create their own addons and share with others.

Owlbot

An Owncast chat bot with a modular event-driven architecture.

git.logal.dev

BT Free - NonProfit 501(c)3 Charity - Digital Privacy Rights, Advocacy and Consulting

I created this nonprofit to help advocate for open tech and the Fediverse. Our plan is to take tax deducitble donations (in the US) to help fund platforms to support openness. We are currently running the following:

CONTENT:

Fireside Fedi - A vodcast where we speak with folks from around the Fediverse.
Livestream - @[email protected] - https://firesidefedi.live
Peertube - @[email protected] - https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi
Piefed/Lemmy Community - [email protected]

Works On My Machine - A vodcast where I sit down with developers, talk to them about their project, all while I attempt to install their software from their docs. We learn about their project and they learn that there’s always a better idiot. :D
Livestream - @[email protected] - https://womm.live
Peertube - @[email protected] - https://tubefree.org/@worksonmymachine
Piefed/Lemmy Community - [email protected]

PLATFORMS:

TubeFree - a general purpose Peertube Instance that is open for folks to join. We accept donations for higher storage limits. https://tubefree.org

OPEN SOURCE:

PTIndex - A hosted Peertube Index for others to follow. This index is built with our TOS in mind. We pull followers of other instances that share our values. This has created a chain of trust, but we need more suggestions. For example TubeFree.org follows MakerTube. We share the same values, so I trust MakerTube would follow folks that align with their values, thus aligning with mine. So I pull in their followers and add it to our public https://ptindex.btfree.org for anyone to share in the connectivity. You can find the bash code https://git.btfree.org/BTFree/PTIndex

Working with others in the #fediverse-marketing:matrix.org channel to help centralized and open source presentation documents for everyone to use.

BT Free

Be Free! Big Tech Free!

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I’ve actually opened a feature request with the Peertube folks. I don’t expect much honestly at the moment. The Peertube folks lay out their plans and they’ve probably don’t that for the foreseeable future, but having this kind of mechanism, and building it out as you’re suggesting, is what I hope that can be built into Peertube some day.

https://github.com/issues/created?issue=Chocobozzz%7CPeerTube%7C7493

I can’t do what you’re suggesting at the index level. But it’s totally valid. We need good tools built into Peertube, or an extension or something, to give us that kind of control.

Honestly I want to eventually come out with lists for like Child Friendly or Music or NSFW or whatever.

But right now what you’re suggesting, it’s completely built based on my guidelines and what I want. Places like MakerTube have reached out to me and given me specific servers that aren’t within our guidelines and I’ve removed them manually from our list, but I hope there comes a day where EVERYONE can share their lists and groups.

And I honestly think that there’s a doc going through the Open Social Web group to allow sharing of groups easier, that this might help Peertube as well.

So the ideas are sound, I don’t have the technical chops to do it, and I think it’d take a lot of work, but I absolutely think this is a valid use case and would benefit us all.

The best I can say, make sure to support Peertube however you can, even a $1 a month helps, so maybe we can help them get more folks to move Peertube along even faster.

I’d like to throw my mark in here.

I’m the founder of BT Free a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that’s attempting to help foster the Fediverse.

I’ve recently came up with an idea of a public Peertube index. You can see it at https://ptindex.btfree.org for anyone to use. My idea is that we could have a chain of trust. I trust MakerTube, MakerTube trusts SERVER, therefore I follow SERVER.

But I’d like more folks at the top to share with everyone.

Together we’ll make our network strong. The PTIndex is public, anyone can use it without contributing, I have a script that’s pulling the data from the folks in the chain of trust at https://git.btfree.org/BTFree/PTIndex .

Steaming platforms have worked for quite a while in Linux. Been a while since I had Netflix, but it worked just fine when I did. Disney+ and Hulu work.

This isn’t the first time Mozilla have done a VPN. They walked away from it before, so why should we trust their solution this time?

I’ll stick to my current VPN, thanks.

ActivityPub, aka the Fediverse, aka the open social web, aka what powers Piefed, is created, built by and built into the web, run by the W3C.

So while I agree that DRM sucks being built into the web, I disagree W3C is controlled by GAFAM. With DRM the W3C’s point was that everyone is doing it anyway at least we can have a standard way to doing it, making it easier for ends users to not have to jump through some new hoop and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren’t excluded.

Big Tech do plenty of awful things we can give them direct credit for. W3C isn’t really one of them.