| <strong><a href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org">Join an instance</a></strong>
| <strong><a href="#package-create-your-own-instance">Create an instance</a></strong>
| <strong><a href="#contact">Chat with us</a></strong>
+ | <strong><a href="https://framasoft.org/en/#soutenir">Donate</a></strong>
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<p align="center">
-Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
-directly in the web browser with <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
+Be part of a network of multiple small federated, interoperable video hosting providers. Follow video creators and create videos. No vendor lock-in. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free.
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<p align="center">
</a>
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+Introduction
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+
+PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. :clapper: But one organization hosting PeerTube alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers, all servers of PeerTube are interoperable as a federated network, and non-PeerTube servers can be part of the larger Vidiverse (federated video network) by talking our implementation of ActivityPub. Video load is reduced thanks to P2P (BitTorrent) in the web browser via <a href="https://github.com/feross/webtorrent">WebTorrent</a>.
+
+To learn more, see:
+* This [two-minute video](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3) (hosted on PeerTube) explaining what PeerTube is and how it works
+* PeerTube's project homepage, [joinpeertube.org](https://joinpeertube.org)
+* Demonstration instances:
+ * [peertube.cpy.re](https://peertube.cpy.re)
+ * [peertube2.cpy.re](https://peertube2.cpy.re)
+ * [peertube3.cpy.re](https://peertube3.cpy.re)
+* This [video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) demonstrating the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon) (a decentralized Twitter alternative)
+
:sparkles: Features
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<h3 align="right">Communities that help each other</h3>
<p align="right">
-In addition to visitors using WebTorrent to share the load among them, instances can help each other by caching one another's videos. This way even small instances have a way to show content to a wider audience, as they will be shouldered by friend instances (more about that in our <a href="/support/doc/redundancy.md">redundancy guide</a>).
+In addition to visitors using WebTorrent to share the load among them, instances can help each other by caching one another's videos. This way even small instances have a way to show content to a wider audience, as they will be shouldered by friend instances (more about that in our <a href="https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/devdocs/architecture.html#redundancy-between-instances">redundancy guide</a>).
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Content creators can get help from their viewers in the simplest way possible: a support button showing a message linking to their donation accounts or really anything else. No more pay-per-view and advertisements that hurt visitors and <strike>incentivize</strike> alter creativity (more about that in our <a href="./FAQ.md">FAQ</a>).
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-
-Want to see it in action?
-
- * Demonstration servers:
- * [peertube.cpy.re](https://peertube.cpy.re)
- * [peertube2.cpy.re](https://peertube2.cpy.re)
- * [peertube3.cpy.re](https://peertube3.cpy.re)
- * [Video](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3) explaining what PeerTube is
- * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a-4ec8cbdca701) showing the communication between PeerTube and [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon)
-
-:question: Motivation
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-
-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.
-
-So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as
-[Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). 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 make BitTorrent inside the web browser, as of today.
-
:raised_hands: Contributing
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### Technical documentation
-See [ARCHITECTURE.md](/ARCHITECTURE.md) for a more detailed explanation of the architectural choices.
-
-#### Backend
-
- * REST API:
- * Quick Start: [/support/doc/api/quickstart.md](/support/doc/api/quickstart.md)
- * Swagger/OpenAPI schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
- * HTML explorer: [/support/doc/api/html/index.html](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/api/html/index.html)
- * Servers communicate with each other with [Activity
- Pub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/).
- * Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, query where the
- torrent URI of this specific video is...).
- * When a user uploads a video, the server sends its followers metadata about the video (name, short description, torrent URI...).
- * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded on it.
- * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server (through
- [WebSeed protocol](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html)) where the
- video was uploaded.
-
-Here are some simple schemes:
-
-<p align="center">
-
-<img src="support/doc/user/decentralized.png" alt="Decentralized" />
-
-<img src="support/doc/user/watch-video.png" alt="Watch a video" />
+See the [architecture blueprint](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/devdocs/architecture.html) for a more detailed explanation of the architectural choices.
-<img src="support/doc/user/watch-p2p.png" alt="Watch a P2P video" />
-
-</p>
+See our REST API documentation:
+ * OpenAPI 3.0.0 schema: [/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml](/support/doc/api/openapi.yaml)
+ * Spec explorer: [docs.joinpeertube.org/api.html](http://docs.joinpeertube.org/api.html)
+See our [ActivityPub documentation](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/lang/en/devdocs/federation.html).
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