I saw a few videos shared on PeerTube recently, and created an account on an instance. However, unlike Mastodon and Lemmy I'm struggling to discover channels to subscribe to. When I use the search functions on my instance, most results are either interesting channels which haven't been updated in years, or random foreign language TV shows and episodes.

Just for example, if I'm trying to find videos on "Gaming" on one of the largest instances, the most recent video is over 1 year ago: https://tilvids.com/search?categoryOneOf=7

Is discoverability on PeerTube bad, or are there barely any active channels?

Edit: BTW one very active creator on PeerTube is https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos and his videos are excellent. But can there really only be a handful of active creators to follow on the whole platform?

(page 2) 45 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I have a Peertube server, and I've requested to follow tilvids, and they denied my request, and they also do not follow my Peertube server. I think one issue with tilvids may be that they essentially choose not to federate, and therefore you won't find much because of this.

I just searched for "Gaming" on my Peertube server and I seem to get a non-ending list of servers. Unfortunately, one column wide, but a lot. When I search for King's Quest, I am also getting a seemingly unending stream of videos.

I follow every Peertube server I can that is clearly not fascist, primarily NSFW, NSFL, etc.

Maybe you just need to find a server that is more federated with other Peertube servers.

[–] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 2 points 17 hours ago

Fell free to send federation request :) https://peer.madiator.cloud/

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the issue with federated youtube. It should ALL be federated, and all searchable, mandatory.

Now if I the user decide I don't want to see an instance/video/creator, I should have two options.

Block - Used for when content offends you. It has zero place being in your feed.

Not Interested - Used when content isn't offensive per se, but you really don't care about it either. It's not completely blocked from your feed, but it's certainly not getting first dibs to show up from now on.

This leaves one thing that some may feel is an issue. Lets say there were a small dicked loser who did nazi salutes in public, and wanted to upload hateful content. Lets give him a random name for the sake of simplicity. Let's call him.....Elon. Hypothetical name.

So lets say small dicked Elon, starts uploading hateful content. On youtube you would report him. On peertube, since he owns the hosted server, you'd be reporting him to himself. Which is as you can imagine, useless.

So from here, you block them, and then you never have to see their hateful content ever again.

Because their rise, only comes from people giving these people attention.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 4 points 1 day ago

Yes!

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

what's the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

edit: I think I'm gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

I get it, they're separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user's channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Isn’t it the exact same thing on YouTube?

You have a user account, which can have x numbers of channels.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Take a look here for an instance: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115 And take a look here, under gaming, which instances they use: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

As someone who watches gaming footage on PeerTube, I've mostly interacted with single creator instances -- i.e. either the creator themselves is self-hosting it or it's run by a fan as a non-YT backup of their Twitch/Owncast/whatever VODs. Those instances generally do not allow anyone else to upload.

Discoverability sucks but the way I've found them is by using SepiaSearch and looking for specific words from game titles. I imagine the way most other people find them is that they already know the content creator from Twitch and want to find an old VOD that isn't archived on YT (e.g. because of YT's bullshit copyright system) -- but that's just a guess.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Haha, good luck.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 23 hours ago

Tilvids.com don't want to allow following or follow anyone themselves. That's a policy they have had for a long time. However... Since Tilvids is on this list: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?search=tilvids, they are part of the Global Search Index. So you can get videos from tilvids in your search results, if you instance has enabled Global Search.

Also, you, as an instance owner, can follow channels on tilvids, by using their channel handles.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I created !peertube@lemmy.world in case anyone finds channels, videos, ect that they like.

We can help with the discovery!

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Check out the pinned posts here: !peertube@lemmy.wtf

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Check out the two pinned posts here: !peertube@lemmy.wtf

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I couldn't even get an account on the instance I most wanted because they seem to only give accounts to creators. So now I cannot follow anyone on that instance, or like their videos, or comment. So I have to figure out what other instance I can get an account on and follow from there, hoping they federated with each other.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Important: you do not need to have an account on a peertube instance. You can follow from nearly (iirc) any fedi instance. I have successfully done so from mastodon and I have heard lemmy should work, not sure though. You just copy the address of the channel you want to follow from the browser and paste it in your search bar on mastodon.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

The that's a shit solution.

load more comments (8 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Which instance was that? Have a look at this list: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115

Even if the instance does not federate with the instance you wanted, you can still type in the link of the channel in the other instance's search bar.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's a shit solution

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 17 hours ago

Then find another instance…

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think peer tube federation is opt in not opt out like most other services.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 23 hours ago

The PeerTube admin chooses which other platforms they follow. They can also control who can follow them.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah the search is the worst part. As others have said the technology is there, we just need a better search.

The other issue is Lemmy (and perhaps other platforms) has issues with Peertube channels. I can't direct link Peertube for activityhub posts. Lemmy is a no go. !teddy_the_dog@piped.chrisco.me Piefed for example works: https://piefed.social/c/teddy_the_dog@piped.chrisco.me

I host one and don't plan on taking it down anytime soon! If anyone likes dog videos: @teddy_the_dog@piped.chrisco.me

He's a good boy.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice channel, I've just added it to https://piefed.social/topic/wholesome to help people find it.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Excellent. I hope we will all enjoy it. Teddy is a good boy :)

Thanks!!

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try the app, it's a little better

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not if you want to subscribe to a channel, or interact with videos in any way.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah it is a major work in progress but discoverability is better and you can use Sepia search from within it.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

i can’t easily upload from my ipad which is my main video creation device.

i just post to my personal goto social instance without issue.

load more comments