Thanks! I had previously downloaded it from the play store and had no idea that’s why the search sucked. Uninstalled and re-downloaded from F-droid, works great now!
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It's worth stressing that you can get around Google's totalitarian restrictions by installing PeerTube from F-droid.
If you're on Android, you should probably consider using F-droid whenever possible anyway. Personally I like Droid-ify, which is an F-droid client with a nice interface.
If you're on iPhone, you're out of luck. The EU might eventually come to the rescue of European users. American iPhone users will probably not be surprised to learn that they are shit out of luck.
Twoafros@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean. I’m generally an app snob and prefer them most of the time. But we also can just use the website. Lots of people visit YouTube simply in a browser on mobile, without the app on any platform.
Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What am I missing from your comment? iOs can be found here: apps.apple.com/fr/app/peertube/id6737834858
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Ah, sorry, it's in the context of what Elena Rossini writes about the limitations of the mobile app.
As PeerTube draws content from independent servers, it's hard for them to comply with the content policies of Google and Apple. The PeerTube app you can find in the App Store or Google Play Store therefore only contains content from a very short list of whitelisted PeerTube instances, where Apple or Google have accepted content from these instances to be presented in their app ecosystems.
F-Droid doesn't have such limitations, and as a result the stuff you'll find in the F-Droid app is the same as you'll find in https://sepiasearch.org/ .
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Meanwhile, YouTube be like : heil hitler, and that’s cool, I guees.
Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I misunderstood your comment. Thank you for the clarification.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
In the article, she mentions that the app store version and the Google Play Store version have really strict moderation and are extremely limited due to Google and Apple policies. I actually ended up asking her whether the fdroid version had the same limitations on Mastodon. Although the above comment says it does not. So that’s at least encouraging.