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I spent like 20 minutes trying to find something I would legitimately want to watch on PeerTube and came up empty. I can't tell if it's because PeerTube just h

by Imnimo 6y ago

I spent like 20 minutes trying to find something I would legitimately want to watch on PeerTube and came up empty. I can't tell if it's because PeerTube just happens to have a different type of content than what I like to watch, or because I don't understand how to make the best use of the search functionality, or if the search functionality is just bad. Regardless, it's a real tough sell for me to replace YouTube with a video service where I can't find anything I want to watch!

kylebenzle 6y ago
YouTube used to be like that. I think most people don't realize that for years YouTube was only good for watching Simpsons and Family Guy episodes. Without that start it never would have taken off.
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  I've been using YouTube since almost the beginning and have never even bothered with using it to watch traditional TV (legal or illegal). Instead, when I remember that time (Google Video still was a competitor), things like these come to mind : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpKqQxTURik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpKqQxTURik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0cq2ymJu7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0cq2ymJu7g (ok, this last one actually predates YouTube by a decade : https://web.archive.org/web/19991012210910/http://tie-tanic.com/download.html https://web.archive.org/web/19991012210910/http://tie-tanic.... "Expect about a 4 hour download time for the 48 Meg. [13 min? 5 min? QuickTime .mov] Version using a 56K connection." )
qznc 6y ago
It would be great if https://media.ccc.de/ https://media.ccc.de/ would switch to PeerTube but they have their own stack. Still, conference videos are one way to resolve the chicken egg problem.
LockAndLol 6y ago
Some instances have global search (search across instances) activated, but there's also a website written by the devs of peertube to do that global search https://sepiasearch.org/ https://sepiasearch.org/ You can use that to first find the videos you like and decide if you like the instances they are on. Edit: To be honest, I spend 20 minutes on youtube trying to find the stuff that I want to watch and give up often too. Their content discovery really is terrible and only shows the highest rated and most watched, which doesn't help if you've watched them already.
- Imnimo 6y ago
  Yeah, I tried SepiaSearch, but I couldn't find anything. As an example, I searched for "Golf". The first two videos are Twitch clips of people playing video game mini-golf and "golf bowling". Then there's a video about the Trump administration and coronavirus, and then a bunch of videos on topics that have low edit distance, like "wolf" and "gold". Maybe that's just a bad topic and no one is uploading golf content to PeerTube.
sundarurfriend 6y ago
Your comment prompted me to dig up a Peertube instance list I'd posted elsewhere, I added it as a top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712951

by Imnimo 6y ago

kylebenzle 6y ago

YouTube used to be like that. I think most people don't realize that for years YouTube was only good for watching Simpsons and Family Guy episodes. Without that start it never would have taken off.

BlueTemplar 6y ago
I've been using YouTube since almost the beginning and have never even bothered with using it to watch traditional TV (legal or illegal). Instead, when I remember that time (Google Video still was a competitor), things like these come to mind : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpKqQxTURik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpKqQxTURik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0cq2ymJu7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0cq2ymJu7g (ok, this last one actually predates YouTube by a decade : https://web.archive.org/web/19991012210910/http://tie-tanic.com/download.html https://web.archive.org/web/19991012210910/http://tie-tanic.... "Expect about a 4 hour download time for the 48 Meg. [13 min? 5 min? QuickTime .mov] Version using a 56K connection." )

qznc 6y ago

It would be great if https://media.ccc.de/ https://media.ccc.de/ would switch to PeerTube but they have their own stack. Still, conference videos are one way to resolve the chicken egg problem.

LockAndLol 6y ago

Some instances have global search (search across instances) activated, but there's also a website written by the devs of peertube to do that global search https://sepiasearch.org/ https://sepiasearch.org/ You can use that to first find the videos you like and decide if you like the instances they are on. Edit: To be honest, I spend 20 minutes on youtube trying to find the stuff that I want to watch and give up often too. Their content discovery really is terrible and only shows the highest rated and most watched, which doesn't help if you've watched them already.

Imnimo 6y ago
Yeah, I tried SepiaSearch, but I couldn't find anything. As an example, I searched for "Golf". The first two videos are Twitch clips of people playing video game mini-golf and "golf bowling". Then there's a video about the Trump administration and coronavirus, and then a bunch of videos on topics that have low edit distance, like "wolf" and "gold". Maybe that's just a bad topic and no one is uploading golf content to PeerTube.

sundarurfriend 6y ago

Your comment prompted me to dig up a Peertube instance list I'd posted elsewhere, I added it as a top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712951