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FediDB lists 67 software projects in the Fediverse. Just scroll through it and try whatever suits you.
My personal favorites:
And lately I scrolled a bit through Wafrn, it's a whole different vibe over there. I don't understand much, but that's what I love about it.
Can you explain PeerTube? From what I gather, people set up their own instances for their stuff and no instance allows sign ups. So I need to create my own instance in order to even get a feed and notified of new posts?
Bookwyrm is nice, but it only knows about 20% of my Goodreads book shelf.
PieFed can subscribe to peertube channels as if they were communities. https://piefed.social/f/peertube shows some of them.
There are a lot of instances that allow signups. Go to fediverse observer, filter by registration and country, order by active users and you'll get a decent list.
Or check one of these instances and request an account, just to name a few.
Check out the pinned posts at !peertube@lemmy.wtf for an instance to register on and channels to follow.
You can subscribe to a peertube channel with a Mastodon account if you want
I don't know if it's wrong and how much, but I've seen it likened to Imgur more than YouTube: a place from which you link your videos in other parts of the recovered, rather than a platform to browse videos fed by the algorithm. Sorry if I'm mistaken.
And Lemmy has about 1% of Reddits users but here we are.