I saw a few videos shared on PeerTube recently, and created an account on an instance. However, unlike Mastodon and Lemmy I’m struggling to discover channels to subscribe to. When I use the search functions on my instance, most results are either interesting channels which haven’t been updated in years, or random foreign language TV shows and episodes.

Just for example, if I’m trying to find videos on “Gaming” on one of the largest instances, the most recent video is over 1 year ago: https://tilvids.com/search?categoryOneOf=7

Is discoverability on PeerTube bad, or are there barely any active channels?

Edit: BTW one very active creator on PeerTube is https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos and his videos are excellent. But can there really only be a handful of active creators to follow on the whole platform?

  • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    Both.

    Peertube made this asinine decision to make federating opt-in, so most instances are just places where the owner can jerk themselves off for excluding everything.

    • TeddE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Seems difficult to build it as a social media if it’s inherently unsocial.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Who said YOU could say words???

        revokes your right to comment

        We’ll be having none of that interaction, and social stuff here!!!

        …why isn’t peertube taking off???

        (/joke)

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    The discoverability is incredibly bad. Peertube has a ton of videos and more servers than lemmy by a long shot iirc. The problem is that the „frontend“ has seen no love like ever. There recently came an app which is nice but otherwise, its very underloved.

    Feel free to voice your concerns in [email protected] for example. The devs should be available through the fedi somewhere.

  • rocky1138@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    It’s really just missing a great instance. Most of them look really shady or are not accepting new users.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      01·
      6 days ago

      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 🤷

  • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    I have a Peertube server, and I’ve requested to follow tilvids, and they denied my request, and they also do not follow my Peertube server. I think one issue with tilvids may be that they essentially choose not to federate, and therefore you won’t find much because of this.

    I just searched for “Gaming” on my Peertube server and I seem to get a non-ending list of servers. Unfortunately, one column wide, but a lot. When I search for King’s Quest, I am also getting a seemingly unending stream of videos.

    I follow every Peertube server I can that is clearly not fascist, primarily NSFW, NSFL, etc.

    Maybe you just need to find a server that is more federated with other Peertube servers.