We need better usability for noobs (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone, I recently made a peertube instance and I see the potential!

But the discoverability is absolutely lackluster. It must be possible somehow to see and sort videos that are out there.

If I search for minecraft videos on my instance for example, it obviously shows only the other instances I federate with.

But to find new instances I search through joinpeertube.org‘s elasticsearch and get the most unrelated stuff.

I was recently asked to submit a pr to framasofts gitlab but the signup/signin is bugged.

This is what I mean with stuff needs to be easier. Any ideas?

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[-] Patariki@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

I believe this is a problem of the fediverse in general. If you go to the reddit website, you'll see instantly what it's all about. Compare that to lemmy where you're immediately overwhelmed with technicalities and prompted to join a server before you actually get access to lemmy. Open source stuff is great but it often has a lack of user friendliness/ experience.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 11 months ago

Everything made solely by developers is customer unfriendly. We actually need more feedback from non devs imo. Thats what the corpos do better atm.

[-] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Literally I can't figure out peertube lol total noob

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, same. Sometimes at least. :D

Just use sepiasearch.org and type in what you want to see. That should help. You can go to any instance (example peertube.giftedmc.com) and watch federated videos there as well.

Peertube has not the most intuitive gui since it differentiates between local and federated content (which is bad imo) as well as trending.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've been meaning to set up my own PeerTube instance (I want a place to share my cycling videos that is not YouTube), but looking at the official guide on how to do that feels like I've jumped into the deep end of a pool and I don't know how to swim.
I'm not entirely foreign with Linux and using the terminal, but I'm not confident using docker and docker compose quite to the degree that the developer seemingly expects me to be.

It would be nice if I could just install an app on my unRAID server, fill in some variables, and be up and running from there.
That's how easy it is to set up a Mastodon instance, why can't PeerTube be that simple?

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 11 months ago

I agree. Peertube still needs work but it is also a lot newer than mastodon and a lot fewer people use it.

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