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?
I have a channel on my instance where I post videos about PeerTube. Here is one example video on how to subscribe to other instances:
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?
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.
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.
Do you have some of the links? The culprit could possibly be my instance.
It always works fine for me (using web interface), are you on desktop or mobile?
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.
