Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

[prof_wafflez@lemmy.world]

Yeah that’s been my experience with most of the fediverse so far. It’s not going anywhere unless someone comes up with a solution to the discoverabilty problems.

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

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

[rimu@piefed.social]

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

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

Which is silly because most instances will auto mirror your YouTube channel. Literally takes no effort to post to both.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

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.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

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

[e0qdk@reddthat.com]

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]

Haha, good luck.

[notfromhere@lemmy.ml]

You say that yet Google search / Internet search is very much a big thing. For the record, I agree with you.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying. Google owns youtube. If you're saying people search google, and then click the youtube link results, I mean, yeah, people do that. But it's not a necessity. I can go to youtube, and search straight from youtube. I CAN search from google, but it's not a requirement like it is with peertube.

[notfromhere@lemmy.ml]

PeerTube doesn’t have search at all? Yea that is kind of nuts. I’ve had bad search experience across Lemmy and Mastodon as well. I wonder how much is due to decentralized nature of the servers, the federation aspect, or just poor search functionality.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

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

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Peertube has a search, but by default it only searches it's own instance. Instance owners can choose to federate with other instances, but thats a choice they need to enable.

You can use outside searches to search all of peertube, but it's not a given that you can on peertube directly.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Excellent. I hope we will all enjoy it.

I'll work on a logo and other stuff

[notfromhere@lemmy.ml]

I’m not opposed to a microservice that indexes the fediverse for creating a robust search index. Without it, you’d have to nearly search each server on each service.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Check out the two pinned posts here: [email protected]

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Check out the pinned posts here: [email protected]

[joyo@lemmy.ml]

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.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

I would not recommend using tilvids.com. They do not federate with anyone and do not have global search enabled, which means search only shows videos from tilvids.com. It is however, possible to follow channels from tilvids.com from other platforms (instances).

Simply copy the link from tilvids.com and paste it into the search bar of an instance that has global search enabled.

Platforms can also follow channels directly from tilvids and the videos will show up on said platform.

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Discoverability can be a bit finicky on PeerTube. Especially if you don't know how to fine tune the filters.

If you take a look at this list: https://peertube.wtf/home and this one https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205, you'll see that there's plenty of content creators to follow. I discover new ones almost every day.

There really isn't any other big content creators on PeerTube, other than The Linux Experiment, but if you wanna see your favorite creator on PeerTube, ask them.

If you are looking for a platform (instance) to register on, I recommend looking at this list: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

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