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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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah the search is the worst part. As others have said the technology is there, we just need a better search.

The other issue is Lemmy (and perhaps other platforms) has issues with Peertube channels. I can't direct link Peertube for activityhub posts. Lemmy is a no go. !teddy_the_dog@piped.chrisco.me Piefed for example works: https://piefed.social/c/teddy_the_dog@piped.chrisco.me

I host one and don't plan on taking it down anytime soon! If anyone likes dog videos: @teddy_the_dog@piped.chrisco.me

He's a good boy.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice channel, I've just added it to https://piefed.social/topic/wholesome to help people find it.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Excellent. I hope we will all enjoy it. Teddy is a good boy :)

Thanks!!