From f95cb03a29716a455ad89877dfd5192d825e3931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rigel Kent Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:27:27 +0100 Subject: (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. --- FAQ.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'FAQ.md') diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index ac75d1321..34e365874 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ +- [Why did you create PeerTube?](#why-did-you-create-peertube) - [I don't like the name "PeerTube"](#i-dont-like-the-name-peertube) - [If nobody watches a video, is it seeded?](#if-nobody-watches-a-video-is-it-seeded) - [What is WebSeed?](#what-is-webseed) @@ -22,6 +23,28 @@ +## Why did you create PeerTube? + +We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion, +Vimeo... with centralized software. One organization alone may not have +enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers. + +Our stance is that only a decentralized network of servers can provide an +acceptable answer to technical issues (bandwidth, transcoding expenses, etc.) +and social answers (need for a particular moderation policy, preserving +content, etc.). + +While a paragraph is not enough to answer all these problems, PeerTube has +very early prouded itself for using a contributory design, both for creating +communities as federated nodes (as [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) for +example), and for seeding videos (instances can seed each other's videos). But it's not +enough because one video could become popular and overload the server. That is +why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to +[WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can use BitTorrent +inside most modern web browsers, and users become seeds as the video gets +more viewers. + + ## I don't like the name "PeerTube" PeerTube is just the name of the software. You can install it on your -- cgit v1.2.3