Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?
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To instance owners (like myself) looking to be added:
This has helped with my channels discoverability. Im still not seeing my videos on the search, even directly searching for the title of the videos, but im hoping that changes when the index gets updated.
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YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple "brands" that aren't linked to your username. People can't find those from your main account.
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YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple "brands" that aren't linked to your username. People can't find those from your main account.
Ah okay, so you can also upload videos to your username channel?
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yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too
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Excellent instance!
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Some Lemmy instances work. Others don't. Piefed and kbin/kbin work well though.
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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.
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they seem to only give accounts to creators
Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.
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they seem to only give accounts to creators
Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.
Exactly. The way it is structured seems to forget people who watch the videos are an important part of the community.
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It would be nice if we can just click subscribe. I know mastodon lets you do something similar within other mastodon instances. What I wouldn't give for a better user experience...
Yeah it's compounded by federation being opt in on PeerTube. It makes the server your account is on matter a lot more.
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Exactly. The way it is structured seems to forget people who watch the videos are an important part of the community.
yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it's the main way to use the platform
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Its growing like crazy. Try the app they just released. It uses some search that works better than instance search
It uses sepia search to search all instances that have opted into being searched.
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Its growing like crazy. Try the app they just released. It uses some search that works better than instance search
It uses sepia search to search all instances that have opted into being searched.
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Simply copy the link from tilvids.com
...what link?
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She is on her own instance now
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Google search started out when the internet was a collection of unrelated websites and you needed a search engine to discover any of them. If Youtube's search was so useless that you had to leave Youtube, open up Google, search for the content you wanted to see there, and then ended back up on Youtube, you'd be pretty pissed.
But it’s not PeerTube, it’s ABC’s PeerTube and BCD’s PeerTube and CDE’s PeerTube, etc.
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But it’s not PeerTube, it’s ABC’s PeerTube and BCD’s PeerTube and CDE’s PeerTube, etc.
The question that basically everyone is going to ask is "so?"
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The question that basically everyone is going to ask is "so?"
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