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?
Peertube is older than Lemmy though.
What you suggest isn’t actually a bad idea, but if that was the goal then they shouldn’t even pretend to support user accounts only channel accounts, channel accounts wouldn’t need to be able to like/comment/subscribe either. They wouldn’t have to bother with their UI rendering likes/dislikes/comments, they wouldn’t need buttons to subscribe, and they wouldn’t need a mobile app either. It’s a good idea, just be a video backend and only support the embedded video player (as it appears on Mastodon), but it doesn’t seem like that was their goal.
They support everything, they just don’t encourage it? A logged in user doesn’t use much more server resources than an anonymous user. It’s still fetching all the video stats and comments, and of course the video itself which is the biggest thing. Kinda seems like it’s just for moderation concerns.