Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

[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!

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Some Lemmy instances work. Others don't. Piefed and kbin/kbin work well though.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

It would be nice if we can just click subscribe. I know mastodon lets you do something similar within other mastodon instances. What I wouldn't give for a better user experience...

[die4ever@programming.dev]

they seem to only give accounts to creators

Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

Exactly. The way it is structured seems to forget people who watch the videos are an important part of the community.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

Yeah it's compounded by federation being opt in on PeerTube. It makes the server your account is on matter a lot more.