id like to make the comment section into a list of ways to use peertube. i know there is grayjay, going to the peertube instance website of your choice, and the peertube app which if i recall isnt completed yet but is expected to be done sometime soon but correct me if im wrong, im sure there are other apps people use for peertube but maybe not, i havent actually looked. As well as how does everyone interact with peertube? Is it mostly following specifically people or more like other fediverse platforms where you just make an account somewhere on a instance you deem worthy and check out the whole peertube userbase, I know each instance is like a whole YouTube website, does that mean that you have to search based on instances to find things or can you search like all vs local or whatever?

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    20·
    3 months ago

    You will probably get the best answers from the peertube community so I suggest you crosspost your question there.

    That said, I host a peertube instance. It is the same as any other fediverse service but it is very young so dont expect it to be on par with mastodon and lemmy in terms of usability.

    As with all other services, you can make an account on an instance, seeing only what that instance allows you to, either by specifically allowing or disallowing other servers.

    So if you want the user experience, check joinpeertube.org for a rather well connected (and or maybe large) instance and join if you want to upload content. If not, you can just use your mastodon account to follow creators or comment on their videos.

    If you want freedom to do as you please, you need to get a server that is online (as in not in your home network or at least exposed but treat with caution). You can then install a peertube instance of your own, ideally with a custom domain. Then you can join the network and federate with who and whatever you like.

    In any case, framatube is a great company imo but their marketing just isnt that good. Peertube has so much potential and it could be further along by now.

    But dont get me wrong. It is still great and here to stay.

    Good luck.

    • MeldrikA
      7·
      3 months ago

      You can also follow a PT channel from Lemmy.

      • Andrew@piefed.social
        3·
        3 months ago

        It’s perhaps worth mentioning that - unlike Lemmy - PeerTube makes subscriber info public. I mean, it’s no great secret that I’ve subbed to your channel at !startgametrailers@peertube.wtf, but it’s the kind of thing that some people care about.

        • MeldrikA
          2·
          3 months ago

          Public to everyone? The channel owner can see who has subscribed. I think the same is the case on YouTube.

          Don’t know about an API that perhaps can access that info.

          • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Yeah (well, nerds anyway). With Lemmy, if you do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://lemmy.wtf/c/gametrailers/followers | jq . it tells you there’s 68 but not who they are. With PeerTube you can do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://peertube.wtf/video-channels/startgametrailers/followers?page=1 | jq . and it provides names (including me and you and a bot from leaf.dance)

            (edit to fix URLs)

  • MeldrikA
    15·
    3 months ago

    I host peertube.wtf and make sure the instance follows as many other instances as possible. I’ve also enabled global search, so that you can get search results from every instance on the list at instances.joinpeertube.org.

    I’ve also made the front page of my instance, show some of the interesting channels to follow.

    Content on PT is sparse though. It needs more content creators AND users.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
    8·
    3 months ago

    Every time I’ve clicked a peertube link it’s loaded like shit so I just avoid the links now. Waiting for another alternative I guess.

    • confuser@lemmy.zipOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      great video! helped me understand the peertube structure a lot more when i get sround to setting up peertube things ill make sure to subscribe to your admin chronicles channel

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    It works a lot like Lemmy. Everything’s federated, you get to see your local traffic and what the local people on your note are following.

    The problem is, peertube is resource intensive. To get the torrent style benefits, you need multiple people watching a given video at the same time.

    If you click a link and you’re the only person watching it You’ve got to wait for that one person’s hosted instance to stream you the data which is not necessarily performant.

    Lacking options for monetization, and poor performance on less reviewed media are stumbling blocks keeping it from going more mainstream. YouTube is also starting to block people from trying to sync to it which will be another problem.

    I suspect once YouTube gets its ad blocker blocking sorted out you might see a resurgence in peer tube as people repost popular YouTube videos around the net without ads.

    It’s also kind of a pain in the ass to stand one up from scratch. I scrapped one together in a VM the other day while I was at work, I gave it self-contained redis and postgres and when it got up to the final install step it demanded that I have the URL already lined up and working and you’re not allowed to change the URL after just really disappointing honestly.

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
    5·
    3 months ago

    I have an account at tube.tchncs.de and just paste the url from accounts on other instances into the search there and then follow them, that works most of the time, sometimes you have to follow them at their instance when the search brings up no results. I wish more creators would use it, I think you can also stream with Peertube?