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Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[-] commander@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

That's fine. That's how federation works.

The problem is that the different peertube instances are defederated BY DEFAULT so it's exceptionally rare to find ones that can share with each other.

The censorship crowd needs to stay far, far away from peertube if there is ever any chance of it being successful.