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Is there any community (besides the .ml communities) that talk about Peertube? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If lemmy had a super upvote for the day, I'd use todays on this post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Mbin has boosts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One feature i would really love on PieFed would be a filter that allowed me to see all the peertube content available there, sorted in the usual ways. Kind of like a meta-topic. I'm pretty sure that would immediately become my favourite way of finding content from there, for whenever I just want to find something to watch. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It would be easy to add a post type filter to the search function, then sort it by date... Would that do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ideally of course the usual Hot/Top/New/Active, but a search filter would already be a huge improvement on what's out there!

I think I would use it pretty regularly in periods when I have time to kill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I took a quick swing at that idea but found that when PieFed imports a new PeerTube video it doesn't put any special marker on it to identify it as a PeerTube video. So although I've added a post type filter to the search tool (check this out https://piefed.social/search - set the Type to 'Video and 'Sort by' to 'newest' ) the results you get are all mixed in with other video content.

Oh well.

Along the way I also found a tweak that suddenly makes the keyword search way better so that's a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Just checking it out quickly made me discover [email protected], which seems to be a great repository of public domain feature length movies from the old days. Wonderful! 🍿

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Good find!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Amazing!

The pace and responsiveness of development in PieFed is unlike anything I've seen before. It's a brilliant platform, thank you so much for developing it!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was going to upvote but then:

Hopefully it will start leaning into its unique strengths now and become really innovative.

Please stop the corporate garbage talk/pitching bullshit. Can't we have a normal discussion without these buzzwords?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Woah, shame on me for not getting my thesaurus out for you. I'll be more careful next time...

There's no need to be rude and swear at me. Be polite, offer a correction. If you're against corporations (like I am) then maybe leave their culture of antagonism at the door and help keep the Fediverse pleasant, helpful and cooperative.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah sorry i didn't mean to sound rude. It's just that I've heard too much "corporate bullshit talk" that i can't just stay calm when i hear it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

OK, apology accepted. And I do agree that commodified/appropriated speech is annoying to hear by the way.

How about a deal; you make more of an effort to be nice, and I make more of an effort to avoid corporate language?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

Latest PeerTube vids available on PieFed - should be quite handy hopefully, because - as you say - they normally get buried by any sort method that isn't 'New'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 ;-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't even know what some of those are!

A.gup.pe

No clue what that is. But the rest of the message just shows how much work EVERYTHING needs. It shouldn't take specialized knowledge, to achieve only a fractured and disjointed experience with that being the best there is.

It's one thing to say youtube sucks, and corporate control sucks......but if you're going to compete with it, I'm fine with the federated seperate instances.....but the platform still has to work!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

a.gup.pe is a 3rd-party effort to wrangle individual Mastodon posts into Groups, so that Group-based fediverse platforms can follow them (a more familiar term for Group is 'community').

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're saying that piefed community is an example of a.gup.pe and all content in that community is all pulled from different mastadon posts?

I feel like I'm wrong, but thats how I'm reading what you said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah - those individual Mastodon posts were tagged with @[email protected] by their authors, and a.gup.pe picked up in the tag and made it part of the Group so PieFed could display it in a community.

For example: an original post was https://mastodon.social/@zhhz/113068522102706157 and how it appears on PieFed is https://piefed.social/post/225229

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So, you tag it with @photography, but how does piefed know it's targeted?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

a.gup.pe tells us - they Announce the post the same way that [email protected] Announced this post. I'm subscribed to both [email protected] and [email protected], so get content from both in the same way.