PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)

What is it like to use PeerTube as a video creator? Spoiler alert: it's amazing!

Elena Rossini

@_elena @elena @Framasoft @peertube @paige @srosset @MakerTube

I appreciate you doing this series. It's inspired me to finally look at moving over to PeerTube. 💪

@_elena @elena @Framasoft @peertube @paige @srosset @MakerTube

The only thing keeping me from using PeerTube right now is the need for "indexifembedded" to be added to the video embed page. Without it, I can't embed videos on my sites and have them rank for videos in Google Search.

For example, if I used a PeerTube embed on this page https://coywolf.video/social/hugo-gameiro-interview/ Google wouldn't index the video associated with that page.

I added more details here: https://framacolibri.org/t/add-indexifembedded-to-embed-url-page/25295

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Coywolf Video
That is an issue for us as well. We want to embed our own videos on our own websites, and we want them to be indexed. I can understand why some people would not want that to happen, but some of us have different use cases.

@Jon Henshaw @Elena Rossini ⁂ @PeerTube
Add indexifembedded to embed URL page

Yes, I recommend the following robots directive be permanent on the embed URL page, even if the video is unlisted: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, indexifembedded" /> The reason I recommend that is because people who choose to make a video unlisted don’t want it to be discovered on their PeerTube instance, but they still want it discoverable if they embed it on a public page on their site. Consider the following: To keep a video on the PeerTube instance from competing with the same vid...

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