For what it's worth, I made a contribution!
Is this an unlabeled Show HN?
It didn't seem to me that I should tag it as Show HN, but maybe I was wrong.
I can confirm this is not an ad, 'cause we didn't launch the campaign yet :) It was published without any communication for now, just we had to publish it in advance for calendar reasons (our communication manager going on well deserved holidays, and the person taking over starting only Monday)
So you've cracked a secret that won't be a secret from the beginning of next week.
If you're interested, we can come back to HN as soon as we have launched the campaign to inform you, and answer any questions you may have.
But peertube is the work of the small french non profit organization and popular education network based on free software framasoft[1].
They are leading the project of de-google-ification of internet[2] by providing free software alternatives to google services and guiding people on how to do it themselves.
The sucess of their initiative lead them to tackle the task of providing an alternative to youtube and that's how peertube came into existence. After successfully funding the first year of development through donations from the french community and showing that peertube works and starts to grow, to be able to continue development towards a 1.0 release they appeal to the global community for funding the project further.[3]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framasoft
[2]: https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en
[3]:(fr) https://framablog.org/2018/05/31/peertube-vers-la-version-1-...
