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Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad? (lemmy.world)
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I saw a few videos shared on PeerTube recently, and created an account on an instance. However, unlike Mastodon and Lemmy I'm struggling to discover channels to subscribe to. When I use the search functions on my instance, most results are either interesting channels which haven't been updated in years, or random foreign language TV shows and episodes.

Just for example, if I'm trying to find videos on "Gaming" on one of the largest instances, the most recent video is over 1 year ago: https://tilvids.com/search?categoryOneOf=7

Is discoverability on PeerTube bad, or are there barely any active channels?

Edit: BTW one very active creator on PeerTube is https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos and his videos are excellent. But can there really only be a handful of active creators to follow on the whole platform?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sort by "hot". And also, check this list out for content: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Also also, you can still follow channels on tilvids.com, from your own instance, by following the channel's handle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I go to the TILvids channels, the last 6 months of videos are missing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do you have an example?

If I go to The Linux Experiment via peertube.wtf, I can see many years of videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

From what instance is that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Mine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What’s the URL?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not sharing, thanks Guy on a Buffalo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No problem. Something is off with the federation on your server though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I run various services just to toy around with and pretty much all of them have some form of broken federation. Some more severe than others. It's pretty off-putting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That view of The Linux Experiment is quite similar to the view from lemmy.ml, with the latest post also being from 9 months ago. I wonder if your PeerTube instance and Lemmy 0.19.x have the same problem, where "something changed" at PeerTube, and new videos stopped appearing at federated sites that didn't change to accommodate the update. Are you running an old PeerTube version?