Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

[cris_color@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I agree.

When it comes to building a fediverse service there's a really delicate balance to find with making it unambiguous you're engaging with multiple services, vs creating a singular and cohesive enough user experience, and it seems like the peertube devs just learn reaaally far towards the former at the expense of the latter.

Its a bit frustrating.

[cris_color@lemmy.world]

I didn't know that, that definitely helps

[haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com]

The discoverability is incredibly bad. Peertube has a ton of videos and more servers than lemmy by a long shot iirc. The problem is that the „frontend“ has seen no love like ever. There recently came an app which is nice but otherwise, its very underloved.

Feel free to voice your concerns in [email protected] for example. The devs should be available through the fedi somewhere.

[haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com]

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.

[jerry@feddit.online]

I'm so glad you pointed this out. I did not have this enabled on mine and I forgot about this option completely. I just enabled it.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

You should go here https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/ or here https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube to raise concerns.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

That's a shit solution

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

The that's a shit solution.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Then find another instance…

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Isn’t it the exact same thing on YouTube?

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

[madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud]

In that case issue is some instances do not allow global search and that's why search will limit to only channels you follow and your instance.

[madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud]

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

[wxnzxn@lemmy.ml]

I just rejoined PeerTube after I had a quick look years ago, and it's gotten way better since then, actually. I found out Space Quest Historian is on it, too!

But yeah, discoverability isn't good. Lack of an algorithm also makes bingewatching impossible - for better and worse, I guess.

As you linked them, I'd also recommend peertube.wtf - they even reacted very quickly when I reported a transphobic german conspiracy channel/server.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

That's my instance!

[haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com]

Uhm… entitlement much?

[haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com]

Thank you very much! I love the cooperation in the fedi.

[wxnzxn@lemmy.ml]

Oh

Well, you are doing a great job, and I like what I have seen so far! Keep up the good work!

[ulrich@feddit.org]

If I go to the TILvids channels, the last 6 months of videos are missing.

[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