This is the kind of funding the Fediverse actually needs: Better tools are great, but without people making things worth watching or listening to, we’re just building increasingly elegant infrastructure for arguing about infrastructure. Pairing creators with developers is a genuinely smart move.

Fantastic idea but I have always thought that more than a lack of tools, the problem is the cost of hosting in the case of development, and the difficulty of monetization in the case of peertube-type content creators. But hey, it's my idea, maybe I'm wrong and projects like this are sure to help a lot.

I'm not sure I understand the team premise...

They want a developer to work on adding multimedia applications or features to the Fediverse, and they also want artists to make content for the Fediverse, both of which make sense, but why team them up? Is the intention that the content creator member be the first user of the features the developer is developing? If so there might be a boring lead-time where the content creator can't do anything and they're just waiting on the developer to build a thing.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea necessarily... I think I'm just confused at the shape of what they're hoping to come out of this.

I developed a PeerTube-browser project. Or it would be more correct to say that it is an ongoing process. It is basically a tool for browsing PeerTube videos from all over the PeerTube network, and it displays the content in a familiar YouTube-like user interface with a bunch of features like searching, filtering by categories, tags, languages, and even a kind of a personal recommendation system.

I consider myself a content creator and while I was discovering PeerTube for the first time, I encountered a fundamental discovery problem with it, and with the help of AI, I am trying to solve this problem with this PeerTube-browser project.

I really like the idea of the Fediverse, and I really like creating stuff, including content and, recently, a software. So I'm kind of a person who is aware of those two sides of the river. I would really like to collaborate with someone, even more if it brings in some income. Anyway, I'm working on this project just for the sake of my personal interest.

The web app is temporarily down, because I'm on the stage of fixing major issues. You can check out the source: https://github.com/denikryt/PeerTube-browser

I have also developed a Discord Fediverse bridge application. In short, it is software that makes it possible to follow Lemmy communities and display their posts and comments in Discord forum channels. And it also works both ways. So you can create posts and comments in the remote community, as well as create a community that can be followed from other instances in the Fediverse. I'm writing from this bridge : ) Source: https://github.com/denikryt/discord-fediverse-bridge

What kind of content do you create? That might help you find someone :)

Love to see this. Definitely an aspect worth focusing on.

Awesome idea. GL!