Instance information

INSTANCE

Name

Short description

Description

Main instance categories

Main languages you/your moderators speak

MODERATION & NSFW

Manage users to build a moderation team.

This instance is dedicated to sensitive or NSFW content

Enabling it will allow other administrators to know that you are mainly federating sensitive content.

Moreover, the NSFW checkbox on video upload will be automatically checked by default.

Policy on videos containing sensitive content

With Do not list or Blur thumbnails, a confirmation will be requested to watch the video.

Terms

Code of conduct

Moderation information

Who moderates the instance? What is the policy regarding NSFW videos? Political videos? etc

YOU AND YOUR INSTANCE

Who is behind the instance?

A single person? A non-profit? A company?

Why did you create this instance?

To share your personal videos? To open registrations and allow people to upload what they want?

How long do you plan to maintain this instance?

It's important to know for users who want to register on your instance

How will you finance the PeerTube server?

With your own funds? With user donations? Advertising?

OTHER INFORMATION

What server/hardware does the instance run on?

i.e. 2vCore 2GB RAM, a direct the link to the server you rent, etc.

Basic configuration

APPEARANCE

Use plugins & themes for more involved changes, or add slight customizations.

Theme

Landing page

BROADCAST MESSAGE

Display a message on your instance

Broadcast message level

Message

NEW USERS

Manage users to set their quota individually.

⚠️ This functionality requires a lot of attention and extra moderation.

Signup limit

Signup won't be limited to a fixed number of users.

Default video quota per user

Default daily upload limit per user

VIDEOS

Unless a user is marked as trusted, their videos will stay private until a moderator reviews them.

Allow your users to look up remote videos/actors by their URI, that may not be federated with your instance

Allow anonymous users to look up remote videos/actors by their URI, that may not be federated with your instance

⚠️ This functionality depends heavily on the moderation of instances followed by the search index you select.

You should only use moderated search indexes in production, or host your own.

Search index URL

Otherwise the local search stays used by default

FEDERATION

Manage relations with other instances.

⚠️ This functionality requires a lot of attention and extra moderation.

You should only follow moderated indexes in production, or host your own.

Index URL

ADMINISTRATORS

Admin email

Services

TWITTER

Optional. If any, provide the Twitter account representing your instance to improve link previews.

Your Twitter username

Instance allowed by Twitter

If your instance is explicitly allowed by Twitter, a video player will be embedded in the Twitter feed on PeerTube video share.
If the instance is not, we use an image link card that will redirect on your PeerTube instance.

Check this checkbox, save the configuration and test with a video URL of your instance (https://example.com/videos/watch/blabla) on https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator to see if you instance is allowed.

Advanced configuration

TRANSCODING

Process uploaded videos so that they are in a streamable form that any device can play. Though costly in resources, this is a critical part of PeerTube, so tread carefully.

Transcoding enabled

If you disable transcoding, many videos from your users will not work!

Allows users to upload .mkv, .mov, .avi and .flv videos.

Allows users to upload audio files that will be merged with the preview file on upload.

Experimental, we suggest you to not disable webtorrent support for now

If you also enabled HLS support, it will multiply videos storage by 2

If disabled, breaks federation with PeerTube instances < 2.1

Requires ffmpeg >= 4.1

Generate HLS playlists and fragmented MP4 files resulting in a better playback than with the current default player:

Resolution change is smoother
Faster playback in particular with long videos
More stable playback (less bugs/infinite loading)

If you also enabled WebTorrent support, it will multiply videos storage by 2

Transcoding threads

Resolutions to generate

CACHE

Some files are not federated, and fetched when necessary. Define their caching policies.

Number of previews to keep in cache

Number of video captions to keep in cache

CUSTOMIZATIONS

Slight modifications to your PeerTube instance for when creating a plugin or theme is overkill.

JavaScript

Write JavaScript code directly.
Example:

console.log('my instance is amazing');

CSS

Write CSS code directly. Example:

    #custom-css {{ '{' }}
      color: red;
    {{ '}' }}

Prepend with #custom-css to override styles. Example:

    #custom-css .logged-in-email {{ '{' }}
      color: red;
    {{ '}' }}