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Peertube's moment might come soon
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Just to name a few I think have nice videos right on their start page.
You can only make it so easy... If you want a centralistic platform with algorithmic recommendations, use YouTube... Emancipating oneself is work. But I'd agree onboarding for new users could and should be easier.
You don't need a centralized platform to have recommendations.
You just let users choose some tags and go from there. Each server will surface different videos, but if they all pull from everyone they're federated with it would be a lot more accessible pretty quickly. And let users opt in/out of watch history tracking to feed their suggestions.
It won't have the potential YouTube does, but YouTube's so compromised on intent that it could easily be better in practice if content availability were the same (which is obviously way off).
I'm not sure if Peertube perhaps already does that. There are tags to a video and it shows related videos. But I don't know how it calculates that.
I don't think Peertube stores interests of the users, yet. That would be a possible solution. But it also requires the user to put something in or some tracking of their activity.
Edit: Misunderstood you, corrected my comment.
That's fine, though.
You just explicitly make it opt in and make it clear what you're storing and why.
If you have a bunch of people guess how many M&M's are in a jar you can average the guesses and you'll come very close to the correct amount. A recommendation system can be very democratic in that way. When reddit still had their public API I would take advantage of this fact and use it to decide if something was a "deal" or not on PC parts. I was tracking the prices of computer ram at the time as an experiment. It worked very well. If they are federated properly, then their content can be filtered and appear on an instances front page.