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Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But federating with other instances IS links to content, not hosting content.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm actually referring to both. Instance owners are afraid to allow users to host content and they're afraid to link to servers that host content.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

So why run an instance in the first place then?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Good question. My honest answer is 🧩.

I've seen it enough in the tech sphere to recognize it for what it is.

this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025

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