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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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Important: you do not need to have an account on a peertube instance. You can follow from nearly (iirc) any fedi instance. I have successfully done so from mastodon and I have heard lemmy should work, not sure though. You just copy the address of the channel you want to follow from the browser and paste it in your search bar on mastodon.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Some Lemmy instances work. Others don't. Piefed and kbin/kbin work well though.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The that's a shit solution.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Uhm… entitlement much?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

How about basic usability considerations? Nobody is going to switch if this is the user experience. And if no users are subscribing and interacting why would content creators spend time posting to it?

If people want it to be a thriving community then it needs functionality that makes it a community. I shouldn't have to creat an account on a server I don't want content from in hopes that I'll be able to subscribe and interact with a server I do want content from.

I'm an established fediverse user, I have been rolling my own Linux servers for decades. I'm perfectly capable of dealing with imperfect systems. This is a shit user experience and if nobody says so it will never be fixed and peertube will wither and die.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It would be nice if we can just click subscribe. I know mastodon lets you do something similar within other mastodon instances. What I wouldn't give for a better user experience...

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah it's compounded by federation being opt in on PeerTube. It makes the server your account is on matter a lot more.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Although I do understand the idea. but you really need to check your ego, mate.

Just offer help or suggest different ways than it is currently done. If you have the faintest idea of hosting and/or programming, this is not how to get your way.

So stop bitching and start working or shut the fuck up.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

😆

That'll show the big corporations how it's done. I'm sure they're shaking in their boots at a platform that demands their users are programers or live with how crappy it is.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You‘re avoiding my point because you know I‘m right. We dont want corpo apologists here. Foss software is dependent on cooperation. Cooperate or leave.

In any case, you’re leaving my feed now.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm an apologist because I'm capable of criticism. You're no different than Trump and Musk.