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Website | Join an instance - | Create one + | Create an instance | Chat with us + | Donate +
+ ++Be part of a network of multiple small federated, interoperable video hosting providers. Follow video creators and create videos. No vendor lock-in. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free.
-Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) -directly in the web browser with WebTorrent. + Developed with ❤ by Framasoft +
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+Introduction +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. :clapper: But one organization hosting PeerTube alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers, all servers of PeerTube are interoperable as a federated network, and non-PeerTube servers can be part of the larger Vidiverse (federated video network) by talking our implementation of ActivityPub. Video load is reduced thanks to P2P (BitTorrent) in the web browser via WebTorrent. + +To learn more, see: +* This [two-minute video](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3) (hosted on PeerTube) explaining what PeerTube is and how it works +* PeerTube's project homepage, [joinpeertube.org](https://joinpeertube.org) +* Demonstration instances: + * [peertube.cpy.re](https://peertube.cpy.re) + * [peertube2.cpy.re](https://peertube2.cpy.re) + * [peertube3.cpy.re](https://peertube3.cpy.re) +* This [video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) demonstrating the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon) (a decentralized Twitter alternative) + :sparkles: Features ---------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -75,7 +99,7 @@ Just upload your videos, and be sure they will stream anywhere. Add a descriptio-Follow your favorite channels from PeerTube or really any other place. No need to have an account on the instance you watched a video to follow its author, you can do all of that from the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma and plenty others), or just with good ol' RSS. +Follow your favorite channels from PeerTube or really any other place. No need to have an account on the instance you watched a video to follow its author, you can do all of that from the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma, and plenty others), or just with good ol' RSS.
--- @@ -91,35 +115,29 @@ Be it as a user or an instance administrator, you can decide what your experienc-In addition to visitors using WebTorrent to share the load among them, instances can help each other by caching one another's videos. This way even small instances have a way to show content to a wider audience, as they will be shouldered by friend instances (more about that in our redundancy guide). +In addition to visitors using WebTorrent to share the load among them, instances can help each other by caching one another's videos. This way even small instances have a way to show content to a wider audience, as they will be shouldered by friend instances (more about that in our redundancy guide).
Content creators can get help from their viewers in the simplest way possible: a support button showing a message linking to their donation accounts or really anything else. No more pay-per-view and advertisements that hurt visitors and incentivize alter creativity (more about that in our FAQ).
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+See our REST API documentation: + * OpenAPI 3.0.0 schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml) + * Spec explorer: [docs.joinpeertube.org/api.html](http://docs.joinpeertube.org/api.html) +See our [ActivityPub documentation](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/devdocs/federation.html). :heart: Supports of our crowdfunding ---------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -215,7 +196,7 @@ Quonfucius, IP Solution, \_Laure\_, @lex666, 0x010C, 3dsman, 3rw4n-G3D, aallrd, ## License -Copyright (C) 2018 PeerTube Contributors +Copyright (C) 2015-2019 PeerTube Contributors This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published