PeerTube uses ActivityPub because this federation protocol is recommended by the W3C and is also used by other projects like the social network <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://joinmastodon.org/">Mastodon</a>.
Recommended hardware requirements for a big instance to handle 1,000 concurrent viewers (see our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://joinpeertube.org/news/stress-test-2023">blog post about our viewers stress test</a>):
Remember that PeerTube has only <a href="#who-is-working-on-peertube">one full time developer</a> and a small handful of very involved volunteers. It is not a product developed by a start-up with a full time team and significant financial support.
Sepia does its best to display videos, channels and playlists matching your search, but its <strong>SepiaSearch tool is neither the publisher nor the owner of this content</strong>.
The ambition remains to be <strong>a free and decentralized alternative</strong>: the goal of an alternative is not to replace, but to propose something else, with different values, in parallel to what already exists.