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PeerTube is a tool for sharing online videos developed by Framasoft, a french non-profit.

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How can I watch peertube the right way? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/peertube@lemmy.wtf

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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.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.wtf 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

I think this video has a good explanation of what peertube is. It's just like lemmy or mastodon but for video.

https://sepiasearch.org/ allows searching across the majority of instances.