this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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A free software to take back control of your videos
Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.
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The thing about peertube is that the instances feel very separated compared to lemmy. When I goto all on lemmy I can see all except a small handful of instances. But on peertube I can barely see anything
This belongs to your instance settings. Is your instance following other instances/channels, how is search configured and so on.
So if I make my own instance then I can have it like lemmy where it automatically federates everything?
Yes.
In peertube you can setup your own search-instance (needs heavy ressources) an configure, which instances are searched. Or you can just configure your instance to use https://search.joinpeertube.org
You can set https://instances.joinpeertube.org to autofollow all this instances, or host your own instances-instance or just put in manually instances, you will follow.
Peertube is very mature in this things. Much better than every other fediverse-service.
But you have to know, there are so many propaganda/putin/trump/antivaxxer-instances out there, that you really have to curate your followings very well! That's the dark side of federation and selfhosting.
Peertube is an ActivityPub-Service. The same as Lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed and so on. It federates the same way as every other AP-Service too. And you can follow an peertube-channel from Lemmy as well as from Peertube, Mastodon or friendica!
I don't think you can browse external channels. There is a plugin for it though: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1465