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Yes, it is federated. You can search, like, make comments from one server to another so long as they are federated together. Here is a pretty good search engin

Yes, it is federated. You can search, like, make comments from one server to another so long as they are federated together. Here is a pretty good search engine: https://search.joinpeertube.org/ https://search.joinpeertube.org/ I usually try that if i'm trying to watch a video for free and I can't find it anywhere else. There are are servers that just re-upload documentaries and stuff.

pipeline_peak 4y ago
Ok great, I don’t like hoping across 1000 instances, feels messy and unsafe. Like mini 2006 YouTube’s everywhere lol
- cowtools 4y ago
  You stay on the same site. It fetches the video for you from the other server. For example with this URL: https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY Kraut.zone is fetching this guy's vlog from his personal server. But you don't need to visit this random guy's site yourself or run any of his JS in your browser. But if you are really concerned about security you shouldn't even be using JS in the first place. "Le Walled Garden" is not an exception.
powerhour 4y ago
I searched for a common term, "Linux", and of the top 5 results only one worked -- the rest times out before any content (html and all) loaded. On the first page, of the two videos available only one began loading, however playback did not begin for the minute or so I waited. Bummer. This isn't a problem with the search engine, exactly, but it'd be useful if it filtered out unavailable content.
- cowtools 4y ago
  Interesting. I am sorry to hear that. You may be better off going to a large instance that follows many other instances and search for videos there. For example, kraut.zone seems to index many other instances: https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-index&resultType=videos&search=Linux https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-in... You can find well-connected instances here, if you sort by "Following": https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInstanceFollowing https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInst... You might also need to enable WebRTC. I know I usually leave it disabled for security reasons.

pipeline_peak 4y ago

Ok great, I don’t like hoping across 1000 instances, feels messy and unsafe. Like mini 2006 YouTube’s everywhere lol

cowtools 4y ago
You stay on the same site. It fetches the video for you from the other server. For example with this URL: https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY Kraut.zone is fetching this guy's vlog from his personal server. But you don't need to visit this random guy's site yourself or run any of his JS in your browser. But if you are really concerned about security you shouldn't even be using JS in the first place. "Le Walled Garden" is not an exception.

powerhour 4y ago

I searched for a common term, "Linux", and of the top 5 results only one worked -- the rest times out before any content (html and all) loaded. On the first page, of the two videos available only one began loading, however playback did not begin for the minute or so I waited. Bummer. This isn't a problem with the search engine, exactly, but it'd be useful if it filtered out unavailable content.

cowtools 4y ago
Interesting. I am sorry to hear that. You may be better off going to a large instance that follows many other instances and search for videos there. For example, kraut.zone seems to index many other instances: https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-index&resultType=videos&search=Linux https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-in... You can find well-connected instances here, if you sort by "Following": https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInstanceFollowing https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInst... You might also need to enable WebRTC. I know I usually leave it disabled for security reasons.