Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

How about basic usability considerations? Nobody is going to switch if this is the user experience. And if no users are subscribing and interacting why would content creators spend time posting to it?

If people want it to be a thriving community than it needs functionality that makes it a community. I shouldn't have to creat an account on a server I don't want content from in hopes that I'll be able to subscribe and interact with a server I do want content from.

I'm an established fediverse user, I have been rolling my own Linux servers for decades. I'm perfectly capable of dealing with imperfect systems. This is a shit user experience and if nobody says so it will never be fixed and peertube will wither and die.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Its growing like crazy. Try the app they just released. It uses some search that works better than instance search

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Do you have an example?

If I go to The Linux Experiment via peertube.wtf, I can see many years of videos.

[haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com]

Although I do understand the idea. but you really need to check your ego, mate.

Just offer help or suggest different ways than it is currently done. If you have the faintest idea of hosting and/or programming, this is not how to get your way.

So stop bitching and start working or shut the fuck up.

[absolutechicagodog@lemm.ee]

Is there a non ml community? I try to avoid the "genocide is ok when China does it" instances

[haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com]

Yes someone suggested [email protected] and world seems to have one as well.

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

Google search started out when the internet was a collection of unrelated websites and you needed a search engine to discover any of them. If Youtube's search was so useless that you had to leave Youtube, open up Google, search for the content you wanted to see there, and then ended back up on Youtube, you'd be pretty pissed.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

That'll show the big corporations how it's done. I'm sure they're shaking in their boots at a platform that demands their users are programers or live with how crappy it is.

[y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I just checked that out and am Fry ng to make a decision but am confused about storage space for users. What do people use peertube storage space for and/or why might I want it?

[haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com]

You‘re avoiding my point because you know I‘m right. We dont want corpo apologists here. Foss software is dependent on cooperation. Cooperate or leave.

In any case, you’re leaving my feed now.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

[email protected]

Thanks, I tried to add as much as I could from that community.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Storage is for videos you upload. If you don't intend to upload video, you should just go for a PeerTube platform (instance/server) that federates with as many other as possible.

[y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Thanks! That actually changes which server I was going to use lol

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

I'm an apologist because I'm capable of criticism. You're no different than Trump and Musk.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

To instance owners (like myself) looking to be added:

This has helped with my channels discoverability. Im still not seeing my videos on the search, even directly searching for the title of the videos, but im hoping that changes when the index gets updated.

[die4ever@programming.dev]

YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple "brands" that aren't linked to your username. People can't find those from your main account.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Ah okay, so you can also upload videos to your username channel?

[die4ever@programming.dev]

yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Veronica explains is one channel I always enjoys (if you like Linux).

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Excellent instance!