I really really want to use peertube but I can’t seem to get it right.

I have signed up on multiple instances but i can only seem to find videos from the instance that i am in. Or rather i seem to get vastly different results depending on what instance i am in.

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    28 days ago

    This is how I do it: I only have one account on peertube.wtf. I usually discover content right here on Lemmy, in this community or in !peertube@lemmy.world. The channel directory is also a great resource for discovery.

    When I click on a video that’s not on my instance, I click Subscribe below the video, put in myusername@myinstance.xyz and click remote subscribe. It redirects to the correct place on my instance to subscribe/like/comment.

    This way I’ve built quite a huge subscription list and have always around 30 videos in my watch later playlist.

    When it comes to content discovery directly on PeerTube, I barely do it. Related videos aren’t good recommendations most of the time. I tried the PeerTube Picks plugin for Firefox, it runs a local algorithm to recommend you videos. But I never discovered interesting stuff this way and it recently started to recommend me anti vaxx and other conspiracy videos, so I uninstalled it.