Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?
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I think peer tube federation is opt in not opt out like most other services.
The PeerTube admin chooses which other platforms they follow. They can also control who can follow them.
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It's both horrible discovery and a limited number of creators.
But, for discoverability, https://sepiasearch.org/ might help you find things to watch, since it's the only good multi-server search I've seen. (And run by the peertube devs.)
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It's both horrible discovery and a limited number of creators.
100%. I created my own instance and set it to auto-follow other instances. There's like 975 or something and still not really much interesting. Can confirm TILVids also denied my federation request.
I'm doing my part by uploading my own videos
If I set it the discovery to "trending" the top video is 2 years old
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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.
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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 -
I say this everytime someone talks about peertube. You should not need to leave the website to use the website. If I search "crazy guy uses rake to play football", and it's not in the results page, I'm not going to go to ANOTHER website, to search THIS website, for a guy who doesn't understand how to play sports.
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.
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I didn't know that, that definitely helps
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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.
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The that's a shit solution.
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Then find another instanceβ¦
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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.
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Fell free to send federation request
https://peer.madiator.cloud
