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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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

what's the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

edit: I think I'm gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

I get it, they're separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user's channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn’t it the exact same thing on YouTube?

You have a user account, which can have x numbers of channels.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple "brands" that aren't linked to your username. People can't find those from your main account.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ah okay, so you can also upload videos to your username channel?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Take a look here for an instance: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115 And take a look here, under gaming, which instances they use: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

As someone who watches gaming footage on PeerTube, I've mostly interacted with single creator instances -- i.e. either the creator themselves is self-hosting it or it's run by a fan as a non-YT backup of their Twitch/Owncast/whatever VODs. Those instances generally do not allow anyone else to upload.

Discoverability sucks but the way I've found them is by using SepiaSearch and looking for specific words from game titles. I imagine the way most other people find them is that they already know the content creator from Twitch and want to find an old VOD that isn't archived on YT (e.g. because of YT's bullshit copyright system) -- but that's just a guess.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Haha, good luck.