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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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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 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.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 22 hours 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.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

From what instance is that?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 28 minutes ago

Mine

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 1 points 5 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?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 29 minutes ago

Nope