What is PeerTube ?
Channels and playlists
Create one or more channels to post your videos: your audience can subscribe to your channels or your account.
Subtitles
PeerTube automatically transcribes video submissions and integrates the transcription into the video’s subtitles.
This transcription may contain errors and needs to be re-read, but it provides a solid basis for easy subtitling.
Shares
Choose the visibility of your video: in “unlisted” mode with a link, behind a password, only to certain people or in public.
Federation
Your subscribers can follow you using their PeerTube account or an account on the Fediverse (Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma…).
If you enable comments, your audience can also comment on your videos.
And it’s going live!
PeerTube also enables live video broadcasts with integrated chat, from the PeerTube mobile application or any other streaming application (OBS, Jitsi…).
Once the live event is over, the replay can be stored on the PeerTube channel.
"À la carte" service
Hosting videos requires a lot of disk space! We offer an annual fee with several tiers depending on the maximum disk space quota you require, with the possibility of increasing it as you go along.
Subscribing to this service allows you to create an account on our PeerTube installation videos.lacontrevoie.fr, to create your channels and upload your videos.
By using this service, you accept our terms of use, as well as our special conditions for “à la carte” services.
| Storage space | Annual indicative price ? |
|---|---|
| 20GB | 30 € |
| 50GB | 60 € |
| 100GB | 120 € |
| 250GB | 250 € |
| 500GB | 400 € |
| 1TB | 600 € |
Those rates cumulates with the annual membership.
Need a dedicated install?
This offer allows you to host your videos on videos.lacontrevoie.fr, though this installation is shared with other members of La Contre-Voie.
If you prefer to use your own domain name and have your own platform dedicated solely to your videos, we also offer dedicated PeerTube installations.
Frequently asked questions
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For individuals: Only you can access your account and channels. The name of your PeerTube account is not necessarily the same as your account on our member area.
For an organization: you choose an account name that will be used to administer the channels, and this account will be shared among all the people in your organization that you have designated to control the account.
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The federation interconnects all PeerTube installations with each other, allowing users from one PeerTube installation to interact with videos from other installations. Many organizations around the world have their own PeerTube installations, and La Contre-Voie is one of them.
Mastodon and other social networking software installations are also part of this federation, making it easy to share your content on other platforms.
Politically speaking, this federation avoids dependence on a single structure to host all the world’s videos, as is the case with YouTube: this centralization of data is harmful, as it enables players like Google to exert a cultural and economic stranglehold on our digital lives.
This decentralization allows small players like us to maintain our own platform without compromising our digital autonomy, and without isolating ourselves from the rest of the Internet.
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Currently, only two plugins are installed: a plugin for authentication with our member area, and a plugin to add a configurable chat room during live streaming sessions.
There are no plans for us to add plugins, although you can always suggest them; we’ll consider your request on a case-by-case basis, but expect us to decline for reasons of security and maintainability of the installation. If you need more control over your settings, feel free to host your own instance.
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A dedicated installation of PeerTube allows you to use your own domain name to host your videos, for example
videos.mydomain.org.This dedicated installation can be part of the federation just like other PeerTube instances, and benefits from the same tools: automatic video transcoding and subtitling, live streaming, storage options, high-quality hardware…
If you’re interested in a dedicated PeerTube installation, check this page.
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In the meantime that we establish a moderation charter worthy of that name, we can already inform you that all content hosted on the PeerTube installations we host must comply with our general terms of use, to which the following rules are added:
- we reserve the right to delete :
- any content that is insulting or degrading to others because of their gender, beliefs, disability, appearance or any other characteristic ;
- any content that is pseudoscientific or that we consider misleading or deceptive;
- any content that violates the privacy or fundamental rights of others;
- any form of incitement to hatred or participation in the harassment of others;
- adult (18+), lewd or obscene content is not permitted under any circumstances.
If these conditions do not suit your needs, we invite you to look for other hosts who could accommodate you.
- we reserve the right to delete :
This service also exists elsewhere…
La Contre-Voie isn’t the only one to offer this kind of service, and we invite you to check if the grass isn’t greener with other ethical hosts!
Our association receives no compensation by suggesting these third-party actors that we choose at our discretion. Furthermore, we cannot commit ourselves to the quality of their services.
Image credits: CC-BY David Revoy, for Framasoft.
La Contre-Voie, for digital solidarity
With La Contre-Voie, we offer solidarity rates on specialized digital services, especially for small structures that don’t have a sufficient budget to finance them at their fair value.
By subscribing to our “à la carte” services, you’ll be helping us to make this support system sustainable, and enabling smaller organizations to get off the “all-Google” bandwagon.
If you also think that another digital ecosystem is possible, please support us!