So I feel like I’m doing peertube wrong. I’m trying to find good content, but it feels like every single instance I find is just “here’s the linux news, here’s the new linux tips, here’s the linux gossip, linux linux linux!”
And I do not give a shit about linux. I learned long ago that I’m not smart enough to figure it out. I just want to find the non-tech, non-video game content. I don’t know what I’m doing. I want to search all the instances, all at once, and see what the system recommends.
I don’t have a peertube account. I have a piefed account. I’m not against getting a peertube account, but at this point, it’s ruining the whole point of the fediverse. If I need to register for a peertube account to have a decent experience, what’s the point in having all these services be interconnected. Registering for peertube account would be the THIRD account I would have for the fediverse. But at this point, I just want to find the content.
Finding content on Peertube sucks. If you want to search all of it, there is Sepia search. But just browsing and perusing is not a thing unless you do like me and make your own and auto-federate. Even then the sorting algorithms are awful.
As for following, you can follow, like and reply to any Peertube channel from Mastodon, Lemmy or whatever.
Yeah at this point peertube is mostly a video hosting system. We still need a good discovery/finding/recommendation system. I think that could be independently developed; for example: upload the videos on peertube and then link and post them here on lemmy to promote them.
I mean the concept of Peertube is simple, you federate with other servers and then your website is mostly just a “directory” for them. It aggregates them and puts them all in the same place.
The problem is every server I’ve seen only federates with maybe 2 or 3 other servers, unlike Mastodon or Lemmy that federate with thousands.