diff --git a/client/src/app/+about/about-peertube/about-peertube.component.html b/client/src/app/+about/about-peertube/about-peertube.component.html
index 5a0b6f46e..9bfda58a8 100644
--- a/client/src/app/+about/about-peertube/about-peertube.component.html
+++ b/client/src/app/+about/about-peertube/about-peertube.component.html
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
   <div class="privacy-contributors">
     <my-about-peertube-contributors></my-about-peertube-contributors>
 
-    <div class="p2p-privacy">     
+    <div class="p2p-privacy">
       <h2 class="section-title">
         <div class="anchor" id="privacy"></div> <!-- privacy anchor -->
         <ng-container i18n>P2P & Privacy</ng-container>
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
       </p>
 
       <p i18n>
-        The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance's BitTorrent 
+        The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance's BitTorrent
         tracker as long as you download or watch the video.
       </p>
 
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@
         </li>
 
         <li i18n>
-          Web peers are not publicly accessible: because we use WebRTC inside the web browser (<a href="https://webtorrent.io/">with the
-          WebTorrent library</a>), the protocol is different from classic BitTorrent.
+          Web peers are not publicly accessible: because we use the websocket transport, the protocol is different from classic BitTorrent tracker.
           When you are in a web browser, you send a signal containing your IP address to the tracker that will randomly choose other peers
           to forward the information to.
           See <a href="https://github.com/yciabaud/webtorrent/blob/beps/bep_webrtc.rst">this document</a> for more information
diff --git a/client/src/app/modal/instance-config-warning-modal.component.ts b/client/src/app/modal/instance-config-warning-modal.component.ts
index 1c90f190a..c42413fc0 100644
--- a/client/src/app/modal/instance-config-warning-modal.component.ts
+++ b/client/src/app/modal/instance-config-warning-modal.component.ts
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ export class InstanceConfigWarningModalComponent {
   }
 
   isDefaultShortDescription (description: string) {
-    return description === 'PeerTube, a federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly ' +
-      'in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.'
+    return description === 'PeerTube, an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.'
   }
 
   private doNotOpenAgain () {
diff --git a/config/production.yaml.example b/config/production.yaml.example
index 8a3f26a1c..88def3ad5 100644
--- a/config/production.yaml.example
+++ b/config/production.yaml.example
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ auto_blacklist:
 # Instance settings
 instance:
   name: 'PeerTube'
-  short_description: 'PeerTube, a federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.'
+  short_description: 'PeerTube, an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.'
   description: 'Welcome to this PeerTube instance!' # Support markdown
   terms: 'No terms for now.' # Support markdown
   code_of_conduct: '' # Supports markdown
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ef4b62dd9..26ed6453f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "peertube",
-  "description": "Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.",
+  "description": "PeerTube, an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.",
   "version": "3.0.1",
   "private": true,
   "licence": "AGPL-3.0",