Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?
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Yeah, that must be it. It's a real shame because the core technology seems to be solid. Streaming 1080p videos from other instances just works. But finding channels to follow seems impossible.
I had the exact same experience including the videos you linked to. There was nothing to be found.
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Yeah, that must be it. It's a real shame because the core technology seems to be solid. Streaming 1080p videos from other instances just works. But finding channels to follow seems impossible.
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Yeah the search is the worst part. As others have said the technology is there, we just need a better search.
I host one and don't plan on taking it down anytime soon!
If anyone likes dog videos: [email protected]He's a good boy.
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Just horrible discovery leading creators to abandon the platform.
Which is silly because most instances will auto mirror your YouTube channel. Literally takes no effort to post to both.
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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.
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Haha, good luck.
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You say that yet Google search / Internet search is very much a big thing. For the record, I agree with you.
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You say that yet Google search / Internet search is very much a big thing. For the record, I agree with you.
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.
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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.
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.
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Yeah it is a major work in progress but discoverability is better and you can use Sepia search from within it.
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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.
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.
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Excellent. I hope we will all enjoy it.
I'll work on a logo and other stuff
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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.
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.
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