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

Creator of Fireside Fedi Show: https://video.firesidefedi.live/@show

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

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  • When I say quality I’m not talking about like Hollywood. I’m more trying to talk about good, fun, no misinformation, NP hate speech etc. Right now I’ve funded this nonprofit myself. And I have so much I can put into it. I’m just trying to give folks choice as well. I talk with a lot of people and while I’ve been able to recommend platforms people kind of turn off if I don’t ha e a direct way to help them. And lots of folks don’t want to trust some random dude, but are more open when they hear it’s a real business.

    As for charging for storage, I don’t know if we’ll do that. Right now my goal is to get people involved. Hopefully donations, or sponsorships or grants can help with that. It was one avenue of thought.




  • I already have some folks interested in joining. I didn’t want it to be attached to me as a personal entity, so no. I don’t think it’s backwards. You can’t ask people to come to a restaurant that doesn’t exist yet.

    Maybe it is. I’ve never run a business. So this might all flop. But I have to try at least. I personally believe the Fediverse is the next evolution of the web. And we need to help it where ever we can.


  • It’s just an idea at the moment. I don’t know if it’s feasbile, practical, or even allowed legally. Hence why I have to talk to my accountant.

    But my idea is to generate income either through donations, funding drives, sponsors in the banner, etc. Or to do like a service where you can upload X amount of videos for $/month.

    Then once we’ve hit break even, assuming we do (yes I know this is a difficult task atm), to share the additional revenue with content creators.



  • I agree. We’re in a chicken and egg problem. No creators because no viewers, no viewers because no creators. I’ve started Fireside Fedi to help make some kind of content. I’m setting up this NonProfit to show there’s an actual business behind it. I’ve opened the Peertube to attempt to make that barrier to entry lower.

    I have some ideas on how to help people upload to multiple places easier, but I’m no dev and need to talk to a friend I could probably interest.

    Thank you for the welcome. :-)

    I’m running my own auto-follow index at ptindex.btfree.org if you’d like to get added to it.

    Also going to attempt to create a search index this week. I have found far too many unsavory instances on the public on. So attempting to provide value with building our own.


  • Yup. I’m never going to be able to give Youtubers Youtube money. But I’m asking my accountant about some kind of rev share or something. It’s still a work in progress. This instance though is to help onboard those that are interested in an alternate platform that do it for their community. Hard ask, but we’ll be here for the long haul, hopefully. :-D