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How can I watch peertube the right way?
(lemmy.world)
PeerTube is a tool for sharing online videos developed by Framasoft, a french non-profit.
For videos from PeerTube, check out [email protected]
This is how I do it: I only have one account on peertube.wtf. I usually discover content right here on Lemmy, in this community or in [email protected]. The channel directory is also a great resource for discovery.
When I click on a video that's not on my instance, I click Subscribe below the video, put in [email protected] and click remote subscribe. It redirects to the correct place on my instance to subscribe/like/comment.
This way I've built quite a huge subscription list and have always around 30 videos in my watch later playlist.
When it comes to content discovery directly on PeerTube, I barely do it. Related videos aren't good recommendations most of the time. I tried the PeerTube Picks plugin for Firefox, it runs a local algorithm to recommend you videos. But I never discovered interesting stuff this way and it recently started to recommend me anti vaxx and other conspiracy videos, so I uninstalled it.
I just use this addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/
It automatically redirects to my own preferred instance, when I visit a PeerTube link. It can also redirect you from YouTube to PeerTube, if the video exists on Peertube.