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Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by farcaster@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's both horrible discovery and a limited number of creators.

100%. I created my own instance and set it to auto-follow other instances. There's like 975 or something and still not really much interesting. Can confirm TILVids also denied my federation request.

I'm doing my part by uploading my own videos 🙂

If I set it the discovery to "trending" the top video is 2 years old 🤷

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 0 points 4 months ago

Sort by "hot". And also, check this list out for content: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Also also, you can still follow channels on tilvids.com, from your own instance, by following the channel's handle.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 4 months ago

If I go to the TILvids channels, the last 6 months of videos are missing.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 0 points 4 months ago

Do you have an example?

If I go to The Linux Experiment via peertube.wtf, I can see many years of videos.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 4 months ago

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 0 points 4 months ago

From what instance is that?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 4 months ago

Mine

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 0 points 4 months ago

What’s the URL?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 4 months ago

Not sharing, thanks Guy on a Buffalo.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 0 points 4 months ago

No problem. Something is off with the federation on your server though.

[-] andrew_s@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago

That view of The Linux Experiment is quite similar to the view from lemmy.ml, with the latest post also being from 9 months ago. I wonder if your PeerTube instance and Lemmy 0.19.x have the same problem, where "something changed" at PeerTube, and new videos stopped appearing at federated sites that didn't change to accommodate the update. Are you running an old PeerTube version?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 4 months ago

Nope

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