I too would like a better account of the servers out there. In the end, I was able to get an account with this instance: https://exquisite.tube/
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I believe that the fediverse.observer site can list any Fediverse instance type by number of users (though not active users).
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Oh, they do do active users.
https://peertube.fediverse.observer/list
Looks like the top one is phijkchu.com, at 8074 active users.
EDIT: There's also fedidb.com:
Choose "PeerTube" as server type, and they'll give you some data on instances too.
EDIT2: Note that another way to explore PeerTube, which may be to your taste, is that Google Video indexes PeerTube servers, though I don't know of a way to restrict it to only PeerTube servers aside from using something like site:phijkchu.com to restrict the search on an instance-by-instance basis. But if you search and it's on PeerTube, and Google has indexed it, it should come up there.
Kagi also indexes videos, and lets lets one restrict the search by source of videos, with "PeerTube" being one.
EDIT3: Adding "peertube" as a search term on Google Video isn't ideal, but it did result in videos on PeerTube hosts at the top, so maybe that could be kind of an ad-hoc way of searching on Google Video.
EDIT4: libera.site doesn't appear to provide sortability, but it does list a video count per instance, as well as a bunch of other graphed data. Never seen it before now, though.
You probably should not use number of users or amount of content as the deciding factor (that leads to centralization, remember the entire point of federation is to DE-centralize), that said...
The instance list does allow sorting by number of users or number of videos, phijkchu.com has the most users and Videovortex has the most videos.
You probably should not use number of users or amount of content as the deciding factor (that leads to centralization, remember the entire point of federation is to DE-centralize), that said…
The instance list does allow sorting by number of users or number of videos, phijkchu.com has the most users and Videovortex has the most videos.
Wow, you made me think! P.S.: I’m still new here on the Fediverse.
I've always liked peertube.wtf.
Tilvids is fun as well.
doesn’t allow filtering by number of users or amount of content
It does though?
https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalUsers https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalLocalVideos
PeerTube seems to have fucked up by being too quick to reject people. Not exactly the best strategy for growth.
Who has peer tube rejected?
A literal nazi party in Sweden runs a PeerTube instance using "peertube" in the domain name. Who has "PeerTube" (do you mean Framasoft?) rejected?
(Note: The above does not mean Framasoft supports the nazis, just so that my comment doesn't come off in the wrong way here)