Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

[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.

[die4ever@programming.dev]

yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it's the main way to use the platform

[rocky1138@sh.itjust.works]

It's really just missing a great instance. Most of them look really shady or are not accepting new users.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

It uses sepia search to search all instances that have opted into being searched.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

It uses sepia search to search all instances that have opted into being searched.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

Simply copy the link from tilvids.com

...what link?

[yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

She is on her own instance now