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Right that's what I meant about a "centralized" instance. I just think it would make things a lot easier if there was one "main" server that new users could easily be directed to, create and account, and view and discover content from lots of other instances.

The existence of instances like MakerTube I think provides a good platform for dedicated creators to go to at the moment, but it would be cool if again, there was a main instance that somehow allowed uploading to other instances.

Unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about development lol. I might look into creating a piefed account though just for these feeds which look really cool

This looks really cool! Is there any way to follow/subscribe to these feeds with a lemmy.world account? I feel like I already have so many Fediverse accounts which kind of goes against the point of the Fediverse lol.

I still think it would be best to just have a "centralised" Peertube instance that can list videos from many other instances that users can sign up to and easily discover a large catalogue of content. The issue with a Mastodon style app is it could also show other random videos from Mastodon and short form videos from platforms like Loops, and those are two different media categories from Peertube/YouTube content in my mind.

100% agree with everything you say, I'm genuinely impressive how good Peertube is without the backing of a huge corporation. And I do love it as an option when regular people start getting tired enough of YouTube's enshitification.

My point is simply that in it's current state, Peertube isn't very friendly to new users and I think there's some pretty obvious steps that need to be taken before "regular" people will even start thinking about joining.

There's a certain channel I want to be subscribed to but I don't want notifications from that channel and I can't figure out how to do that other than unsubscribing

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Right and that's great, but the original comment was concerned with costs and using Big Tech's servers is one of the only ways around that.

I understand that Peertube isn't trying to be YouTube, specifically from a monetization point of view. However I'm still looking for pretty much the same thing from Peertube as I do from YouTube; to watch interesting videos and follow creators. I get what you're saying about the Fediverse being different and having benefits like choice, freedom, and control, and I appreciate that, but at the end of the day, just trying to consume content on Peertube right now isn't a great experience.

As far as being able to watch without an account and interacting with a Mastodon or other federated account, I do think that's great, but I go to Mastodon when I want to see text/photo posts. If I want video I would like to go to Peertube and find high quality videos I'm interested in. Plus searching for topics/hashtags like you mentioned will bring more than just video results, and again if I want video I'm usually looking on a video platform and if I want text/photos I'm looking on those platforms. Plus most Mastodon apps don't have great video players so again it's just not a great video consuming experience.

And honestly I wouldn't mind a secondary algorithm feed that shows me videos I might be interested in. Obviously I don't want the entire platform to be just that as that's one of my biggest problems with traditional platforms. But a feed tuned to my interests that I can choose to check out would honestly be great in my opinion. Again obviously I would still want the default to be a "subscription" feed that only shows creators I'm subscribed to, but sometimes I want to be able to find new videos and creators.

True, but I still think it could be a good starting point for creators that need a lot of storage/bandwidth for a decent price. And if Google does start cracking down on their type of content they can always move to another instance/server as needed. Obviously the end goal would be to not rely on Google or big tech at all, but the current reality of the internet makes that very difficult and impractical and switching to a Peertube instance, even if it's hosted on Google servers, is still a step in the right direction.

Worst part of this is nuclear regulation really does need rewritten but this administration somehow finds the worst way to do everything.

I mean if creators are serious about switching to Peertube they can create their own instances hosted on Google servers no? And honestly while getting content on Peertube is a big problem it's really only going to be solved when there's also users there and Peertube in its current state is not very intuitive for new users.