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?

  • commanderEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    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.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      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?