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I'm only discussing instances here that have quality content. TILvids is big and it has quality content but it doesn't federate with any other instance which kind of defeats the purpose of PeerTube. Better would be to join a PeerTube instance that federates with a proper number of other instances and has good quality e.g diode.zone.
I've been learning more lately about what 'not federating' means (for PT specifically)- and even with PT's latest release, the lines of federating/not federating seem to be getting blurrier.
Prior to 3.4, it seems (based on my limited recent experience with tilvids) that a user on one peertube instance could subscribe to the channel of another instance, including channels on tilvids, regardless of federation policy of the remote side.
As of 3.4, with the "Subscribe as an instance to a channel or an account" feature addition/change, it sounds like as an instance we can add in/subscribe to accounts or channels directly regardless of the federation policy on the other end.
So, even though TILVids has some interesting, though imho tenuous, reasons behind not federating (as per my tiny discussion with them this week https://mycrowd.ca/notice/AB9ipJe5GLEHbQmv9k ), those reasons seem to pretty much be blown out the window as we can all subscribe to channels there and apparently now accounts as well (at least instance-wide, will have to test from the user level).
Kind of interesting and odd at the same time, don't you think?