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Does anybody use Peertube here? How is it? Good content? Accessible from mobile?
I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
But it's very hard to find anything interesting on it.
They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
Right now it's a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn't work at all.
I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.
It's still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.
I would agree that the biggest things holding PeerTube back right now are just the lack of interesting content and better search functionality. Unfortunately the content problem would probably only be fixed by PeerTube becoming more popular, but the way it would get more popular is through having more interesting content... Vicious cycle. PeerTube doesn't have the benefit of a lack of alternatives whenever YouTube causes a mass exodus from their site, as Mastodon had with Twitter or Lemmy with Reddit. There are at least a few other YT alternatives such as Rumble and Odysee that already have strong advantages over PeerTube in the content, UI and funding departments, and some have mobile apps as well. Some even have sync features with YT to simultaneously post to YT and their site, a feature I don't believe PeerTube has. It's gonna take a lot of work to compete even with those sites.