Fediverse

There really aren't that many active peertube channels. Here's all the non-linux channels I could find:

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - electronics and music

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - general technology

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - thunderbird email client

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - photography

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - climate

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - cycling

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - transit

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - urbanism

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - art

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - fediverse podcast

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - crafting

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - anarchy

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - documentaries

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - gaming

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - comics and movies

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - comics

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - blender

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - krita tutorials

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.

Commenting to register my interest.

I will confess that I was tempted to throw some snarky comment about Linux, but I got over the urge.

You're not doing it wrong. It's just a bit like that at the moment.

What Peertube needs is for other Fediverse platforms to build in a filter so only posts which contain video are displayed.

Peertube posts do federate but because there are way less videos produced than text and image posts (for obvious reasons) they are drowned out. Filtering by content type seems like the obvious solution. This is how Pixelfed works (but for still images), so it's clearly possible.

My feeling is that we're still in the first iteration of the Fediverse, where it's mostly trying to replace the functionality of corporate platforms. Which I think has mostly been achieved now. Hopefully it will start leaning into its unique strengths now and become really innovative.

Of course there is also the issue of adoption and Peertube has had less publicity than Mastodon and Lemmy, so it's understandable that there is less content. If you can, contact your favourite youtubers and ask them to start a Peertube channel. If enough of us do this it starts to become a thing :)

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 just want to find the non-tech, non-video game content.

There's also https://pony.tube ;-)

Doesn't look like it. There doesn't seem to be much of anything about discovering compatible things on other fediverse platforms (e.g. MBIN magazines, a.gup.pe groups, pixelfed groups [if they even exist], PeerTube channels, discourse / hubzilla whatevers, Flipboard thingies, etc).

For PeerTube, a good discovery tool is https://fedi.video, but that also involves tootling around on some other instance and copy/pasting handles back to your own platform, so it's not exactly that convenient.