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* 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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- [Why did you create PeerTube?](#why-did-you-create-peertube)
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- [I don't like the name "PeerTube"](#i-dont-like-the-name-peertube)
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- [If nobody watches a video, is it seeded?](#if-nobody-watches-a-video-is-it-seeded)
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- [What is WebSeed?](#what-is-webseed)
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## Why did you create PeerTube?
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We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion,
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Vimeo... with centralized software. One organization alone may not have
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enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers.
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Our stance is that only a decentralized network of servers can provide an
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acceptable answer to technical issues (bandwidth, transcoding expenses, etc.)
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and social answers (need for a particular moderation policy, preserving
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content, etc.).
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While a paragraph is not enough to answer all these problems, PeerTube has
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very early prouded itself for using a contributory design, both for creating
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communities as federated nodes (as [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) for
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example), and for seeding videos (instances can seed each other's videos). But it's not
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enough because one video could become popular and overload the server. That is
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why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to
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[WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can use BitTorrent
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inside most modern web browsers, and users become seeds as the video gets
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more viewers.
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## I don't like the name "PeerTube"
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PeerTube is just the name of the software. You can install it on your
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