It can also be displayed on external websites to promote yourinstance, such as <x id="START_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="<a target="_blank"href="https://joinpeertube.org/instances">"/>JoinPeerTube.org<x id="CLOSE_LINK" ctype="x-a" equiv-text="</a>"/>.
The<x id="START_LINK"/>sharing system<x id="CLOSE_LINK"/> implies that some technical information about your system (such as a public IP address) can be sent to other peers, but greatly helps to reduce server load.