@FediVideos
I haven't tried Sepiasearch yet. So I couldn't have any valuable opinion now. But as far as I am concerned, a good search engine is necessary and i 'd rather let to any user his freedom and independence of choice.

@FediVideos Just learning of this now from your poll, but I wonder if there would be any value to adding the equivalent of 'Safe Search' to sepia? Like, a setting that toggles between content results from an Allowlist or content results from everywhere.

@FediVideos I have tried to find "nasty stuff" and find it difficult. Not so much maybe what is being talked about here. I am sure that there's stuff that I keep finding on YouTube which makes a big point of being "not allowed on YouTube."

That said, I also have found it is getting easier and easier, to find "dangerous misinformation" type stuff on PeerTube, without even searching.

@FediVideos I have the same problem for following an account on botsin.space from mamot.fr. The admins of both servers said that they did nothing to block follow requests :/

@FediVideos wasn't able to follow them from another peertube instance either. Thought they have federation disabled. @tilvids

@FediVideos I didn't see any errors come up on the log when sending a follow request from my instance...

pure speculation: if tilvids server is having DNS or other networking issues preventing them from connecting back out to other instances, that might cause issues along these lines.