 Can I ask a favour? There has been much interest in #PeerTube, the Fediverse's video platform. It's really cool and its accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc. However, PeerTubers sometimes don't get followers and views, and they need followers for their videos to be noticed/searchable by the Fediverse's federation system, so it's catch-22. This cycle would be broken if more people followed PeerTubers, so here's a thread of some active accounts to follow! (And feel free to share!) 1/12 121 comments
 @FediFollows (i know you can follow peertube instances from mastodon; i don't want to do that. i'd rather open up my own new acct and help promote peertube usage :3) Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow: ➡️ @moxxi - Adventures of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi dog ➡️ @extramedicated - Nice videos of wildlife ➡️ @michellemay - Creating lovely videos about all kinds of crafts (crochet, knitting, cross-stitch etc) ➡️ @faith_humphrey_hill - Artist combining knitting with drawing to create unique works ➡️ @coreyartus - Artist & illustrator doing relaxing art livestreams ➡️ @brandkopf - Artist creating lovely drawings & paintings, often with fantasy theme 2/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @alison.wake - Textile artist inspired by English countryside ➡️ @raghukamath - Digital painter & fan of free open art software ➡️ @denmanrooke - Professional artist, creating art for TTRPGs, card games & video games ➡️ @helenmclaughlin - UK-based digital painter, inspired by nature ➡️ @yatoimtop - Animator & singer-songwriter, lots of surreal weirdness ➡️ @alliterative - Videos on etymology of the English language 3/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @pg4i - Ham radio operator, especially morse code ➡️ @letstalkphilosophy - Videos about history of philosophers & philosophy ➡️ @mattkmcguire - Model builder creating customised scale models of spaceships, especially from Star Trek ➡️ @making_tracks - Model railway videos & trainspotting clips ➡️ @jamespetts - Retro-style in-depth videos about building & running model railways ➡️ @rail_casual - Relaxing laidback videos of trains 4/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @heartlandurbanist - Videos about transport & urban planning issues in American mid-west ➡️ @transportevolved - Videos about transport (especially EVs) & gardening ➡️ @janaff - Public transport fan based in Lincoln, UK ➡️ @deathbydenim - Canadian posting about cycling in the city of Ottawa ➡️ @theatticdwellers - Retro pop culture videos about film, TV, food, toys, books etc ➡️ @playcontent - Comedic video reviews of classic film & TV 5/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @nictrax - Original synth music combined with home-made videos ➡️ @mans1 - Swiss hip-hop artist ➡️ @dark_photon_studio - Creating guitar mods, pedals, artwork inspired by heavy metal ➡️ @bacalao - Electronic musician influenced by Amiga demo scene ➡️ @polykit - Designs & builds synths, restores classic old synths ➡️ @diyelectromusic - Creator of lo-fi synth orchestra ➡️ @aria - All about DIY synths 6/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @nategullion - Let's Plays of story-based games, esp. Star Wars ➡️ @radi - Gameplay videos from Art Of Rally ➡️ @retrohistories - Retro gaming history videos ➡️ @nathansalapat - Reviewing mods for Minetest ➡️ @lopano - Creating things in Minetest ➡️ @vl2mstudio - Indie game developer & retro console hacker ➡️ @rees - All about computers & consoles from the 1980s & 1990s ➡️ @lee_smiths_workshop - Repairing old computers & consoles 8/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @morefunmakingit - Fixing classic computers, consoles, pinball machines etc & building new ones ➡️ @noel_llopis - Retro computing repairs, getting old machines working today ➡️ @mikefurtak - Creating music on modular eurorack synths ➡️ @blender - Free open source 3D animation & effects software ➡️ @jason_cryer - Comedic reviews of video games, board games, Let's Plays too ➡️ @slopesgameroom - In-depth videos on retro gaming history 9/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @reenthused - In-depth looks at obscure & classic computers, consoles and tech ➡️ @topazrabbit - Retro computing & gaming enthusiast, Amiga fan ➡️ @jan_beta - Tinkering with old computers & consoles, often Amiga ➡️ @abstruse - Videos on history of role-playing games ➡️ @dair - Non-profit highlighting problems of discrimination/prejudice in LLMs & AIs ➡️ @privacyint - NGO fighting for privacy as human right 10/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @estherpayne - Tech commentary videos, especially about threats to privacy ➡️ @veronicaexplains - Cheerful videos about retro computing, FOSS & related topics ➡️ @thelinuxexperiment - News about Linux & FOSS ➡️ @veggero - KDE developer posting about KDE & other FOSS topics ➡️ @macbla - Videos & podcasts about tech & gaming ➡️ @thunderbird - Official video account for free open source email & comms software Thunderbird 11/12 Nice active #PeerTube accounts to follow (continued): ➡️ @kde_community - KDE community videos ➡️ @buddiesofbudgie - All about Budgie, the desktop environment ➡️ @thelinuxcast - Podcast about Linux & FOSS ➡️ @linuxuserspace - History of Linux distros & tools ➡️ @soldergirl - Programming videos, often for Z80 ➡️ @qwazix - Building a homegrown 3D printer ➡️ @foss_north - Videos of the foss-north conferences, free open software & hardware from a Nordic perspective 12/12 p.s. Don't worry if an account looks blank, they have all posted! A blank profile just means no one on your server has followed the account yet. Follow them so that your server will notice their videos! 👍 After you follow an account, anything they upload from then on will be visible from your server too. @FediFollows Thanks for telling us about the blank followers/videos. I added a bunch which look interesting and I thought I was doing something wrong. Now, where can we watch the vidbeo?! @FediFollows I thought that was general advice. You're giving advice regarding the list you provided. For general advice, I'd suggest opening the profile on the original instance first, so that you can see what they do post and whether it is palatable to you. Then you can follow them.  @FediFollows is there a dedicated peer tube app for watching videos on iOS?  @Craktok @FediFollows No dedicated app, afaik. The easiest (laziest) way is to follow the channels from your Mastodon app and watch the videos using that. @dmian @FediFollows That’s a shame. I’d like a place to browse like the YouTube app. Thanks for the info. @FediFollows @neweuropeanbauhaus @efca @edps @euspa @mrfunkedude @chriswere @hamishtpb@video.thepolarbear.co.uk @hamishtpb@watch.thepolarbear.co.uk @art thanks for posting. There are a number of European based accounts here I'm very interested in! I never knew they were here.  @FediFollows Totally missed this post. Now I know why I've gotten the extra subscribers. Thanks! @FediFollows Just to get it right, the @ listed for me is my Vlogging, Gaming, Short form, and Cooking PeerTube. To see me live, you should also follow @mrfunkedude_live Thanks! @FediFollows Thank you! Is there a dedicated page/category in the Fedi directory for active PeerTube channels?  @FediFollows yay! I did some filming yesterday and this weekend I'll do the Halloween costume if Moxxi isn't in a full-body cast or something. @FediFollows @moxxi @extramedicated @michellemay @faith_humphrey_hill @coreyartus @brandkopf I am certainly going to look into that!  @FediFollows I had some issues following a PeerTuber because it wasn't doing what I expected it to. That seems like something worth addressing? @ruawhitepaw Fwiw this doesn't seem to be a universal thing, I have channels showing up in my mastodon feed no problem. Is it possible the channel you were looking at just isn't federated with your server yet? In which case it would appear blank until someone subscribes and a new video is posted. @thegiddystitcher https://chitter.xyz/@janbeta@makertube.net (the channel) is shown to have 4 posts, but no posts are shown. https://chitter.xyz/@jan_beta@makertube.net (the account/user) is shown to have 4 posts, and the posts are shown. @ruawhitepaw His channel is blank when viewed from sunny.garden too, but the account only has one video showing. So yeah, looks like it's just the usual federation thing. For example my channel at @thegiddystitcher@makertube.net shows up with lots of videos when viewed from sunny.garden, but if nobody on your server follows it it'll be empty from your pov. @thegiddystitcher I'm following both profiles though, and have been for a few days. So they should both be equally federated right? @ruawhitepaw Yep! So when a new video drops (last one looks like it was 6 days ago) you should see it in the channel profile too. If new videos don't show up then there really is something wrong, but atm it looks like it might just be the usual confusing federation rules 😁 @thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden @ruawhitepaw @thegiddystitcher@makertube.net @MossyQuartz If you have any trouble figuring it out do let me know! PeerTube stuff is a bit confusing even by usual Fediverse standards 😅 @ruawhitepaw @thegiddystitcher Hey Rua! Do you disable boots from accounts when you follow? Because I do it always, and noticed that the PeerTube user posts the actual videos on Mastodon from all their channels, but the channel only boosts the videos of that particular channel. If you disable boosts from the channel you follow you’ll see no videos from it. So, follow the user account or allow the boosts from the specific channel. I hope that solves your problem. @dmian @ruawhitepaw Ooh good point I forgot disabling boosts is even a thing!  @ruawhitepaw @FediFollows What you mention about following, I have to agree. If you've not done so, either post an issue on the git repository (I think they're on github), or their forum. I'd call that a bug (as a person running a PeerTube instance). I'm *not* certain if it's a version issue, so the forum may be more appropriate. @ruawhitepaw @FediFollows Same. Many accounts listed have no videos. For one creator I tried the [mastodon] web interface, saw a notice about posts on a “previous account” & that led to an actual channel account with videos—which I had to copy/paste into search to be able to follow. Maybe creator bios need to include links to their channel accounts so people can follow. But that’s a kludge. Their channels should be automatically findable, yes? @FediFollows I have to disagree, Peertubes awful take on federation makes that cycle endless!  @JSSchlegel @FediFollows They have a opt in design for the entire platform which isolates individual instances completely with the exception of manually approved circles. Yes you can find everyone on Mastodon and other more open Activitypub services but you can't find them on your Peertube instance and it might just be my opinion but I think that's a terrible approach and a main roadblock for adoption! @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services not super familiar with PeerTube but it seems like there's the poster's account and then each channel has its own account. And if you want to get the videos on your timeline you have to follow the channel, not the main account. Might be worth pointing it out to folks. @FediFollows Hello! I hope I am not bothering you. Can I make that suggestion?  @FediFollows You are doing SUCH excellent work signal boosting these fine folks! Excellent thread! I followed a bunch! :) THANK YOU!  @FediFollows Major advantage to following from Mastodon in these early days is it puts you in a better position to help these channels grow! If the boost button is right there things are a lot more likely to go viral. @FediFollows I use Tusky for using Mastodon on my mobile, and after following some of these accounts they appear to have no content. Pictured are what I see for posts and media in one case, but the same happened for each one that I followed. Am I doing something wrong? Sorry if this is a stupid question: do I just follow them from my own instance as I would any other profile in the fediverse? Or do I need to find them in PeerTube? @GracelessHippo You're doing it right! The profiles might look blank for you atm but once you're following you'll see new videos that get posted 🙂  @FediFollows @feditips Where can we actually see the PeerTube videos? New to this whole concept! @xirrin You'll see new videos from accounts you're following in your feed, and they'll show up on the above linked account pages too. But in the meantime if your server doesn't have the videos federated yet you'll need to visit the actual PeerTube page. I'm using Tusky right now and when viewing a profile I can hit the three dot menu and "open in browser" to go straight there, can't remember where the option is in browser but you get the idea! 😄 @FediFollows  @FediFollows a question, does #Mastodon search find them? Or is it just searching Mastodon stuff? The latter would be understandable, but seems like there's a missing link to have visibility by default? @pixelpusher220 You can find PeerTube accounts and hashtags in search as normal, but as with anything your server needs to know the account exists first hence this push to get people following us all more widely! 😄  @FediFollows yeah, I agree. I've noticed that one video had like 5 views on #PeerTube and the non-promoted YouTube backup had 3k views and more engagement. I need to do better myself as I tend to default to YouTube because the app is convenient.  @FediFollows the number of contributors on topics I enjoy is circling 0. Which is weird because the Fediverse doesn't normally have this problem. @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services @FediFollows hang on, peertubers don't get follower counts up if people on mastodon follow them? or is the problem that few people are following them in general? @FediFollows PeerTube needs someone to develop a mobile app for it to really move past the early adopters. And adoption of its API by third-party posting tools.   @FediFollows There is exactly one reason why I don’t use Peertube more:  @FediFollows been awhile since I tried peertube. The videos are really snappy and response now, and the end user experience is really good! Though the content is definitely lacking. @FediFollows Would it make sense to recommend PeerTubers to create accounts on big/related instances to follow themselves so their videos get pulled to those instances for discoverability? @FediFollows oh my I followed three and now I already feel the benevolence coursing through my veins😂  @FediFollows Can I throw myself in the ring? sundancer@tube.sp-codes.de Various stuff and talk about painting and build tiny fighting men (Tabeltop Wargaming) |
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@FediFollows is there a good #peertube instance to open up an account that you recommend? most of them seem closed to me; sorry if you've posted about this before!