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author | Rigel Kent <sendmemail@rigelk.eu> | 2018-11-22 16:27:27 +0100 |
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committer | Rigel Kent <sendmemail@rigelk.eu> | 2018-11-22 16:27:27 +0100 |
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(doc) less technical headline, more compact introduction
* FAQ: moving motivation from README.
* README: headline is more appealing to a non-technical public. Introduction now presents WebTorrent and ActivityPub.
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8 | - [Why did you create PeerTube?](#why-did-you-create-peertube) | ||
8 | - [I don't like the name "PeerTube"](#i-dont-like-the-name-peertube) | 9 | - [I don't like the name "PeerTube"](#i-dont-like-the-name-peertube) |
9 | - [If nobody watches a video, is it seeded?](#if-nobody-watches-a-video-is-it-seeded) | 10 | - [If nobody watches a video, is it seeded?](#if-nobody-watches-a-video-is-it-seeded) |
10 | - [What is WebSeed?](#what-is-webseed) | 11 | - [What is WebSeed?](#what-is-webseed) |
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26 | ## Why did you create PeerTube? | ||
27 | |||
28 | We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion, | ||
29 | Vimeo... with centralized software. One organization alone may not have | ||
30 | enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers. | ||
31 | |||
32 | Our stance is that only a decentralized network of servers can provide an | ||
33 | acceptable answer to technical issues (bandwidth, transcoding expenses, etc.) | ||
34 | and social answers (need for a particular moderation policy, preserving | ||
35 | content, etc.). | ||
36 | |||
37 | While a paragraph is not enough to answer all these problems, PeerTube has | ||
38 | very early prouded itself for using a contributory design, both for creating | ||
39 | communities as federated nodes (as [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) for | ||
40 | example), and for seeding videos (instances can seed each other's videos). But it's not | ||
41 | enough because one video could become popular and overload the server. That is | ||
42 | why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to | ||
43 | [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can use BitTorrent | ||
44 | inside most modern web browsers, and users become seeds as the video gets | ||
45 | more viewers. | ||
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47 | |||
25 | ## I don't like the name "PeerTube" | 48 | ## I don't like the name "PeerTube" |
26 | 49 | ||
27 | PeerTube is just the name of the software. You can install it on your | 50 | PeerTube is just the name of the software. You can install it on your |