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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

It's not unsocial. It's just not mirroring multi-gigabyte files by default. It's perfectly social if you use the website.

Everyone has to stop conflating the technology with the network. Lemmy is a website engine. PeerTube is a website engine. The ability to mirror content is not inherent to running a Lemmy- or PeerTube-based website. The network is not the primary object here.

It is a construct that arrises from content-mirroring.

Remember, federation is copying, not creating some kind of remote view. If you're federating videos, you're letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 4 weeks ago

Remember, federation is *copying*, not creating some kind of remote view. If you're federating videos, you're letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.

That is not true, at all.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's literally what federation is. It's why discovery doesn't work the way people expect.

Do you mean to say that PeerTube at least embeds videos? Because that's news to me, and welcomed news at that

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, video is streamed directly from its home server. There is a an option to mirror videos, so that your server will work as a seed, helping with bandwidth.

Images on Lemmy is also loaded from its home server, but there is a cache.