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.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    2·
    2 months ago

    Care to give an example? Which instance and what are you looking for?

    Also, it’s normal to get different results: it’s decentralised. If you ask your grandma and her network to find you a book about knitting and did the same with somebody else’s grandma, it’ll be a Venn diagram of results. That’s how the fediverse works. Not everybody knows each other and not everybody wants to know each other.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 months ago

      oh ok - i thought it was like fedicerce where instances shared content, and therefore could compete with Youtube. If they are simply mini-youtubes, the tech could be awesome, but if the content is spilt across multiple groups, i find it hard to understand how it really can compete against youtube.

      I just did a test to confirm. I tried a search on peertube.tv and one on peertube.wtf but even the interfaces are different so it is hard to figure out what and where you’re searching

      • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfM
        4·
        2 months ago

        PeerTube is part of The Fediverse, as it also uses the ActivityPub protocol. However, the PeerTube part of the Fediverse, is very fragmented. Most PeerTube instances only follow a select few other instances.

        If you take a look at this page at PeerTube.wtf, you will see that the instance is connected with 1091 other PeerTube instances.

        PeerTube.tv is not only running a very old version, but is also only connected to 8 other instances.

        Have a look at this post, for the most inter-connected PeerTube instances: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115