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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)
- [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)
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## 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