From what I learned, you need to find a instance that lets you make a non-creator account, if you just want to view videos, not create them.

I also learned that apparently you shouldn’t make a account but use Mastodon to subscribe and keep track of the channels you like. Third thing I learned is, its all so fucking confusing, I don’t know what to do and if I ask for guidance in the wrong place I get told I’m a moron and probably a asshole as well (which is true but that’s besides the point).

I ended up doing the Mastodon thing. Seems to be working.

Piefed is my preferred platform to consume Peertube content. Here’s an example of what a channel looks like.

It’s good for following channels and getting them directly in my feed alongside everything else. I also find the user interface enjoyable. If there are multiple related channels one can create a custom feed with all of them together, so that its easy to keep track and for other people to find the same group of channels.

Discoverability remains a problem. It’s not easy to find new channels - I generally just stumble upon them when I randomly see videos posted elsewhere. Discoverability of feeds is also not great - if you don’t know it exists you probably won’t find it. [email protected] and [email protected] are two feeds containing PeerTube channels, but they don’t have a clear direction as for the type of content.