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You can see Benn Jordan's videos (referenced in the article) here: https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/5xhkuDuVsWZ2jbsVw32Una
This man is a gift to all in these times.
Spread his word.
Learn his craft.
Build those tools.
Oooh, he publishes on peertube? That's really cool
Yeah I there is starting to be enough content on peertube to be interesting
Sorry, it's off topic, but how do I subscribe to this guy from the instance I've signed up with? I searched his channel but nothing showed up. So that does that mean I'm SooL because my instance isn't federated with his?
I went here: https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/c/benjordan/videos
Then I clicked the subscribe button.
Then I entered the url to my peertube account.
Then it opened the peertube app to my account and I had to hit subscribe again.
Not painless but not bad for being federated.
I'm such an idiot, I thought that remote subscribe was where I put in my email address lol. I got peertube to open my instance, but it said it couldn't access the remote source. but !rollin@piefed.social 's plugin worked so I'll go with that for now. Thanks!
All good. It's a bit odd.
If you're a firefox person, there's an add-on called Peertube Companion which will convert peertube links to use your instance. So for me, that link takes me to peertube.wtf rather than peertube.gravitywell.xyz
Apparently it will also redirect you to your peertube instance when you watch a video on YouTube that also exists on peertube (I've never had this happen though! Not sure how it does the comparision - hashes I suppose?)
Thanks, this worked!
For the redirect from YouTube to PeerTube, it just uses the video title. This sometimes results in a “false positive”, but it does work.
You can try it with “The Linux Experiment”.
Might not apply to Lemmy, but I'm pretty sure PieFed users can follow from !benjordan@peertube.gravitywell.xyz