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?

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

Edit: I learned from another user on this thread that sepia search can be enabled by an instance as their search functionality. That definitely helps

[–] commander@lemmings.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I completely agree.

Normally, you wouldn't have to do this. The problem is that Peertube devs made the HORRIBLE decision to make federating "opt-in" only. This means most content isn't available on most instances. It's a snowball effect where most owners make the decision without thinking to have some mystical barrier to enter their esteemed federation.

They don't understand that most users don't give a shit about "proving" themselves to enter some random person's instance. (and rightfully so)

Peertube made a lot of good choices, but a lot of bad ones too by the censorship/walled garden crowd.

Hopefully someone with more resources than me can run an instance that fills this void: just let people upload and interact like youtube back in the early 2000s.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

just let people upload and interact like youtube back in the early 2000s.

Quick! Somebody get a baby named charlie to bite me! He could bite my finger!

That kids in college now. Yeah. Feel old now, don't ya?

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Implying I didn't feel old then, lmao

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The thing is, there may be content that people will find on Sepia search that you DO NOT want on your instance.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you mean hosted on your instance, that you own, can you not delete content?

If you mean you join an instance, and it has this content on it, well then you picked the wrong instance.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago

If you mean hosted on your instance, that you own, can you not delete content?

You can. At which point it would be unsearchable.

If you mean you join an instance, and it has this content on it, well then you picked the wrong instance.

You're thinking of this as a viewer and not a host.