Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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How do you search PeerTube? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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Often, I try to find 10-20 minute videos about interesting scientific topics, ttrpg design or board game design. In the past I used YouTube to scratch that itch, but I love PeerTube's vision so I thought I change to PeerTube for that.

However, I find it much harder to quickly find a good video. Good doesn't mean professional, but clear title, good mic and mostly fluent presentation of the given topic. I use the PeerTube search; not on a specific instance.

Is there a trick to improve results? Are my topics too niche? What are your experiences?

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[–] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You have to remember that YouTube has 20 years of content and is ran by an advertising agency that also specializes in search algorithms, and they make money by having ads watched along videos that retain attention enough to motivate people to watch another one (usually meaning quality videos, though algo slop is also a consequence). PeerTube is a little over 6 years old, is almost entirely operated by volunteers and donations, and the whole fedi, including PeerTube, is only near .0001% of youtube's user base. While the community is improving at a rapid rate, near every topic outside of the fediverse itself simply is by YouTube standards still niche, especially if you only watch in English.

Searching curated instances like https://fedi.video/ is probably the best we have right now if you don't want to sift for gold yourself, outside of requesting more creators (preferably those you're patreoning) to join or at least allow reposting.

[–] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Coming from a consumer perspective No, I don't have to remember all that. I like the idea of PeerTube, but if it currently is not meeting my needs (content + search-ability), I will keep it in mind, but not use it.

Thanks for the link to fedi.video! Sadly, the results aren't much better (be it not enough matching content or a bad algorithm).