Which instances have you looked at? Most of the big instances federate with others. Except for Tilvids.com. You can still subscribe to other channels though.
Why? Well, let’s look at the top servers. The first hit is a French server, with mostly French and European content. The first US hit is bestgore.fun, which based on its name alone, I would exactly call quality content. The next one is swebbtv.se, which claims to be in the US, but is clearly a Swedish server, and immediately assaults you with a donation screen when you go to the first page. It also does not have any federation.
The next US one is phijkchu.com, which appears to be somebody’s personal instance with just their videos? It also doesn’t have a lot of federation. You have to go pretty far down the list to find something like diode.zone, and even its federated list is only 25 or so instances.
You should use an instance that has enabled global search and uses search.joinpeertube.org. This way, you can find content, even though the instances is not federated.
Also, TILvids and Blender Videos are instances for specific videos, for “general purpose” instances to follow.
Most of the above instances also use very old versions of PeerTube. We are at verison 6.0 now. So I think they might be inactive, therefore not following more instances.
Here’s an instance that does follow spectra.video > peertube.wtf (my instance), but I also only follow a select few instances, because there is a lot of crap being uploaded to the videoverse and that just makes for a worse experience.
There is nothing however that would keep you from searching for or following any channel, on peertube.wtf because global search is enabled.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Then why is every instance I’ve seen completely or almost completely undefeated?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
Which instances have you looked at? Most of the big instances federate with others. Except for Tilvids.com. You can still subscribe to other channels though.
MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
This is not true at all:
Why? Well, let’s look at the top servers. The first hit is a French server, with mostly French and European content. The first US hit is bestgore.fun, which based on its name alone, I would exactly call quality content. The next one is swebbtv.se, which claims to be in the US, but is clearly a Swedish server, and immediately assaults you with a donation screen when you go to the first page. It also does not have any federation.
The next US one is phijkchu.com, which appears to be somebody’s personal instance with just their videos? It also doesn’t have a lot of federation. You have to go pretty far down the list to find something like diode.zone, and even its federated list is only 25 or so instances.
What do you define as “big instances”?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
I would recommend you use this list: instances.joinpeertube.org
You should use an instance that has enabled global search and uses search.joinpeertube.org. This way, you can find content, even though the instances is not federated.
Also, TILvids and Blender Videos are instances for specific videos, for “general purpose” instances to follow. Most of the above instances also use very old versions of PeerTube. We are at verison 6.0 now. So I think they might be inactive, therefore not following more instances.
Here’s an instance that does follow spectra.video > peertube.wtf (my instance), but I also only follow a select few instances, because there is a lot of crap being uploaded to the videoverse and that just makes for a worse experience.
There is nothing however that would keep you from searching for or following any channel, on peertube.wtf because global search is enabled.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
I dunno. I went through dozens of them. Most only federate with <5 other servers.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
Take a look at this list: instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=totalVi…
Sort by most followings and select the first with signups.