It is great to see the #PeerTube ecosystem gaining substance. I did not really study this quantitatively, but I find myself ever more often having luck trying a #SepiaSearch before a #duckduck video search. There are some genres very well represented, in particular the more nerdy stuff, naturally.
On #MakerTube where I help moderation, I see an actual clear increase in users and daily content creation.
Why doesn't #duckduckgo include results from the peertube-verse?
@peertube where to follow #sepiaSearch on Mastodon?
Did you know about Sepia Search, our search engine for #PeerTube?
With #SepiaSearch, you can find out most of videos, channels and playlists available on PeerTube!
Connaissiez-vous Sepia Search, notre moteur de recherche pour #PeerTube ?
Avec #SepiaSearch, vous trouverez la majorité des vidéos, chaînes et listes de lecture disponibles sur PeerTube !
Did you know about Sepia Search, our search engine for #PeerTube?
With #SepiaSearch, you can find out most of videos, channels and playlists available on PeerTube!
Connaissiez-vous Sepia Search, notre moteur de recherche pour #PeerTube ?
Avec #SepiaSearch, vous trouverez la majorité des vidéos, chaînes et listes de lecture disponibles sur PeerTube !
As far as I've researched #Meilisearch is capable of delivering the content that already #SepiaSearch indexes.
Each video will open in its original instance i.e. new tab.
Bonus features:
- "Subscribe" to channels by just storing them in localStorage and influence the Meilisearch ranking
- Related videos (unfortunately requires OpenAI API key) API that can be also embedded to the #peertube instances
This is going to be a long rant. So buckle up.
MOST (not all) people on the Fedi don't support PeerTube content.
They might see a video in their feed, but they aren't going to watch it. And they DEFINITELY aren't browsing anyone's PeerTube instance to find videos to watch.
Everyday I see really well made videos get 14 views after a week. Even if I go to one of the more popular instances I see videos that have been up for 6 months with only 400 views. And yeah, that seems like a lot.
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There is one problem of peertube at the moment. As you mentioned great videos exist with almost no views.
I'm thinking about forking and refactoring #SepiaSearch to build a centralized frontend for peertube so that videos become more discoverable.
