I feel like it would be best to proxy YouTube, or subscribe to paid indie channels like nebula, but without a user base and without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube. Maybe I’m just missing the content but when I’ve checked it’s all very low quality, just random unedited webcam vblogs mostly.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've found better stuff by asking around for good channels, or learning that folks I follow have made a peertube channel, than I have by trying to use the interface. The discovery isn't especially good.

There are only a couple decent channels I've watched but I get the honest impression there are more, they're just burried in stuff. Also depends what you're looking for. There are far more Foss youtubers who mirror over there and make decently high quality stuff than is available for a a lot of other genres of video

There definitely isn't much, but I think there's potentially more than is immediately obvious

[–] pBaesse@bolha.one 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@Cris_Color discovery is of the main features the federated apps have to improve. Urgently HoHOhoHO

@artificialfish

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While I agree, I also think in the case of peertube part of it might also be that there aren't enough people watching for viewership to clearly highlight quality videos

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago

It's definitely part of it but also there is no way to natively feature specific channels, and the algorithms they have are completely borked. If I go to "trending" and the first video is 3 years old, that's a problem. Also an extraordinary percentage of the content is in other languages, with no way to filter them. You can select a specific language and it just does nothing. These are just a few things that seem fairly easy to implement and would go a long way to improving the experience.