Peertube

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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.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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Tip for use of peertube (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here are a couple tips to improve the usability of peertube.

Use sepiasearch when finding new peertube instances and videos. Some browsers such as firefox allows you to create a shortcut for searching

Subscribe to channels through your most used fediverse account. Then it will pop up in your feed and it's easier to comment on videos.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

We can subscribe to peertubers using lemmy or mastodon accounts? How?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You can do this in two ways, through peertube, or through your mastodon account.

On peertube go to a video, press subscriube. Under subscribe with remote account, write in your mastodon address. Press subscribe remotely.

On mastodon search for [email protected] and press their profile. There you can follow as if they were any other mastodon user.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Hmm maybe the subscribe it's down right now, but "On peertube go to a video, press subscriube. Under subscribe with remote account, write in your mastodon address. Press subscribe remotely."

Isn't working. At least on the 2 peertubers I tried to do it on. I put in, @[email protected] , but that didn't work. The other method works though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

On peertube you have to insert your mastodon account, not the peertube channel. Also, it seems like you have to omit the first @. So I would write [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Weird, i omitted the first @, but I still get:

"Error Cannot fetch information of this remote account"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Are you trying from Mastodon or Peertube ? Maybe the instance owner blocked federation with an instance ? For Mastodon I like using the search box, with the user info showing up in the middle and a follow button, instead of going for the option of another browser tab open for a remote follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Hm, have you tried from another peertube instance?

If that doesn't work, have you tried subscribing from mastodon instead? I wrote instructions in an earlier reply.