## Vocabulary
- - **Fediverse:** several servers following each others.
+ - **Fediverse:** several servers following one another, several users
+ following each other. Designates federated communities in general.
+ - **Vidiverse:** same as Fediverse, but federating videos specifically.
- **Instance:** a server which runs PeerTube in the fediverse.
- **Origin instance:** the instance on which the video was uploaded and which
is seeding (through the WebSeed protocol) the video.
+ - **Cache instance:** an instance that decided to make available a WebSeed
+ of its own for a video originating from another instance. It sends a `ptCache`
+ activity to notify the origin instance, which will then update its list of
+ WebSeeds for the video.
- **Following:** the action of a PeerTube instance which will follow another
instance (subscribe to its videos).
* We use the [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) protocol (only
server-server for now). Object models could be found in
[shared/models/activitypub
- directory](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/tree/develop/shared/models/activitypub).
+ directory](/shared/models/activitypub).
* All the requests are retried several times if they fail.
- * The maximum of points would be defined.
### Instance
- * An instance has a websocket tracker which is responsible for all the video
- uploaded in it.
+ * An instance has a websocket tracker which is responsible for all videos
+ uploaded by its users.
* An instance has an administrator that can follow other instances.
* An instance can be configured to follow back automatically.
* An instance can blacklist other instances (only used in "follow back"
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