5 - **Fediverse:** several servers following each others.
6 - **Instance:** a server which runs PeerTube in the fediverse.
7 - **Origin instance:** the instance on which the video was uploaded and which
8 is seeding (through the WebSeed protocol) the video.
9 - **Following:** the action of a PeerTube instance which will follow another
10 instance (subscribe to its videos).
15 * All the communication between the instances are signed with [Linked Data
16 Signatures](https://w3c-dvcg.github.io/ld-signatures/) with the private key
17 of the account that authored the action.
18 * We use the [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) protocol (only
19 server-server for now). Object models could be found in
20 [shared/models/activitypub
21 directory](/shared/models/activitypub).
22 * All the requests are retried several times if they fail.
25 * An instance has a websocket tracker which is responsible for all the video
27 * An instance has an administrator that can follow other instances.
28 * An instance can be configured to follow back automatically.
29 * An instance can blacklist other instances (only used in "follow back"
31 * An instance cannot choose which other instances follow it, but it can
32 decide to **reject all** followers.
33 * After having uploaded a video, the instance seeds it (WebSeed protocol).
34 * If a user wants to watch a video, they ask its instance the magnet URI and
35 the frontend adds the torrent (with WebTorrent), creates the HTML5 video
36 player and streams the file into it.
37 * A user watching a video seeds it too (BitTorrent). Thus another user who is
38 watching the same video can get the data from the origin server and other