Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

Ulrich

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

[email protected]

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.

mesamune

Excellent. I hope we will all enjoy it.

I'll work on a logo and other stuff

[email protected]

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

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

Meldrik

Check out the pinned posts here: [email protected]

JoYo 🇺🇸

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

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.

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

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

Meldrik

The PeerTube admin chooses which other platforms they follow. They can also control who can follow them.

Meldrik

Sepia Search is something that's also build into PeerTube, if the admin have enabled Global Search. Sepia Search uses this list of instances: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

The same can be enabled in PeerTube. You can see here, that I have it enabled on my instance:

Meldrik

Instance owners can enable Sepia Search (Global Search Index) on their instances.

Meldrik

Sort by "hot". And also, check this list out for content: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Also also, you can still follow channels on tilvids.com, from your own instance, by following the channel's handle.

Meldrik

Tilvids.com don't want to allow following or follow anyone themselves. That's a policy they have had for a long time. However...
Since Tilvids is on this list: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?search=tilvids, they are part of the Global Search Index. So you can get videos from tilvids in your search results, if you instance has enabled Global Search.

Also, you, as an instance owner, can follow channels on tilvids, by using their channel handles.

Meldrik

Take a look here for an instance: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115
And take a look here, under gaming, which instances they use: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Cris

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

I didn't know that, that definitely helps

haui

haui

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 on PieFed

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.