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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[–] Jerry@feddit.online 27 points 7 months ago (17 children)

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.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

what's the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

edit: I think I'm gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

I get it, they're separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user's channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t it the exact same thing on YouTube?

You have a user account, which can have x numbers of channels.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah okay, so you can also upload videos to your username channel?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

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