YSK: You can post comments to Peertube videos as a Lemmy user
Here is a comment I posted on one of the videos of @[email protected]
https://tilvids.com/w/h8BKcxxixYFE8RekmR5Ux3;threadId=29688
This is helpful as you don't need to create a Peertube account if you want to engage in the video's comment section.
EDIT: Subscribing to the user like a Community is better than searching the video. Try this link if works in your instance - ![email protected]
So if I understand, your instance needs to "discover" the user then subscribe to it before it shows up in your feed
However, you need to search the video in Lemmy before you can post your comment. I'm not yet sure why but my lemmy username is not (yet?) recognized in Peertube page:
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So we have decentralised versions or Twitter, Reddit and YouTube? What a great time this is.
On the other hand, more and more video creators on YouTube make the bulk of their money off of Patreon, rather than YouTube ads, and if it were possible to increase their Patreon subscriptions by posting to PeerTube as well as YouTube, interesting things could happen.
That would really surface the cost of video hosting, though
Most Podcasts live off of Patreon and no compensation from hosting services. And still they are out there. I don't see the difference to videos. The only thing youtube has over peertube is visibility. But one can argue peertube in combination with some other fediverse service like Mastodon or Lemmy can fix this and give you more visibility for your videos.
Interesting, what are your thoughts on the 'piped' youtube front end that I've been seeing on here?
More than that too, there's also Bookwyrm (Goodreads), Pixelfed (Instagram) and others.
And Instagram. PixelFed's really good.
Oh, and Goodreads. BookWyrm doesn't get enough love.
There's also Mobilizon, a federated events calendar and groups platform.
And a whole bunch of other stuff, but, like PeerTube, they're somewhat content sparse at the moment.
Simply paste the video's full link into lemmy's search bar and wait a bit until the video appear.
For example, take the video linked in this post: https://tilvids.com/w/h8BKcxxixYFE8RekmR5Ux3
If you paste it into the search field in lemmy.world, you'll get this link: https://lemmy.world/post/1109318 . There, you can proceed to comment using your lemmy account. If you're not in lemmy.world, just do the same but using the search field in your instance.
It's pretty cool obviously but until we can see peertube videos directly in our lemmy feed it's just a fun gimmick. Copying the URL into a lemmy search box just so you can post a comment seems a bit cumbersome. Unless I'm misunderstanding this post
you can subscribe to the Peertube user just like a Community in Lemmy. here is the community page for
thelinuxexperiment_channel![email protected] (EDIT: fixed link as suggested by helper bot)
I guess this will be updated once the user uploads new videos.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: ![email protected]
Being pedantic for the sake of clarifying why this works when Lemmy doesn't let you follow users: You're subscribing to a PeerTube channel, and just like with YouTube, users can have multiple channels. PeerTube uses an ActivityPub group for channels, just as Lemmy uses them for communities.
It would be interesting to see app attempt to incorporate things like this. Probably none will since it's bloat, but the possibility is interesting.
Do I need a peertube account to search peertube, or can I use my Lemmy account? How do I access peertube if I just wanted to browse videos on there?
I don't know how to search from lemmy but there's a general search: https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content And you can search/browse each instance too
you need to know the channel name you want to subscribe to using this format:
channelname@instancenameexample is
[email protected](i just browsed a random channel in peertube)looks like my instance doesn't know this channel yet, but if i search it a few times or directly accessing this channel link, it will hopefully find it
![email protected]
It didn't work for me (I'm from lemmy.one instance)
i also noticed some channels are not reachable/seachable in lemmy. this could be federation issues or delay in caching content, but not entirely sure
pretty cool