cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca/p/2087757/what-are-some-good-peertube-channels-also-issues-with-subscribing-to-channels-outside-ma

The search on Peertube is not great for finding what you’re looking for, so what are some channels that you follow on Peertube? Right now I have Veronica Explains, themaritimegirl, and Ewen Bell (all from MakerTube, the instance I setup my account in). I’m interesting in technology, science (especially astronomy and physics-adjacent topics), photography, and that sort.

Also, dunno why, but I’m unable to subscribe to channels outside the MakerTube instance, like the Linux Experiment or Niccolò (KDE dev). Is this a Peertube-specific problem, something to do with the MakerTube instance, or something I can change in settings (is there a toggle that prevents subscribing to other instances?)

edit: It looks like I’m able to subscribe to other instances, I think it might be a network thing on my end? Not sure though, but it works now. Still interested in new Peertube channels to follow!

  • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤@social.ggbox.fr
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    2 days ago

    I agree discoverability is not good, but after gathering subscriptions for a while, I do have a decently active timeline. As for the account, yes it is useful to have one on some instance, especially because of the remote subscribe feature that I found is a reliable way to subscribe to a remote channel. I used to have an account on a public instance which at the time allowed to register an account. Now I host my own.

    Things that I found helpful to discover content :

    • Follow the #peertube and #livestream hashtags on Mastodon. People tend to advertise their peertube content there.

    • Use the peertubify browser extensions so than any video you watch on YouTube that is also available on peertube gets redirected. I was surprised to find some extra channels this way

    • Search for specific content using Sepia https://sepiasearch.org/