Mastodawn

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pieland 3h ago

An ELI5 Guide to Getting Started with PeerTube

Saw this post this morning and figured people might be interested in me sharing/updating my own post about this issue. The Fediverse will never become mainstream if we make basic tasks unnecessarily complicated. With that out of the way…

PeerTube is the fediverse equivalent of YouTube with no ads (other than sponsorships creators might add to their own videos). Services on the fediverse are decentralized into instances/servers that talk to each other (think how GMail and Outlook can e-mail each other despite being different providers). Each instance makes their own rules and decides what instances they will communicate with. The more instances an instance communicates with, the more videos you will have access to. You can even host your own for full control, and you have the option to transfer your account to another instance if you don’t like your current one.

Here are three instances to help you get started with PeerTube right away (remember, you can always switch later!): **

Currently, this instance appears to have **the most content available, although they are not allowing sign ups (but you do not have to be logged in to view the videos): https://tube.shanti.cafe/videos/browse
The instance with the most videos that currently allows sign ups (so you can create a playlist, comment on videos, etc.) seems to be this one, although I have personally found it slow at times: https://dalek.zone/
The instance with the second most amount of videos that allows sign ups is this one: https://video.4d2.org/ I haven’t had trouble accessing this one so far.

You can learn more about PeerTube here: https://joinpeertube.org/

You can browse the official instance list here: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

(While I don’t expect this post to blow up, my sincerest apologies to the servers I’ve listed if it does lol)

Using PeerTube on iOS

Unfortunately, I personally have not found the official PeerTube app to be usable yet. I was also unfortunately having some trouble with the PWAs.

The best solution I have found so far, by accident, is the YouPlay app. Its main use is for avoiding YouTube ads. However, PeerTube instances seem to function pretty decently, compared to other options I have tried so far. Iirc, YouPlay is a free trial with a very affordable lifetime option.

bryn :neobot_snuggle_sylveon: ([email protected])

Since #YouTube is down, now is a good time to join the #fediverse equivalent, #PeerTube 🥰 PeerTube is the fediverse equivalent of YouTube with no ads (other than sponsorships creators might

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pieland Mar 2

welcome back to 2003

https://piefed.social/c/microblogmemes/p/1833946/welcome-back-to-2003

pieland Feb 27

[Spoilers!] Pokemon Winds and Waves New Starters

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/pokemon/p/1824017/spoilers-pokemon-winds-and-waves-new-starters

spoiler

Image description: The new Pokemon starters on a bright beach with palm trees behind them. From left to right. Browt, a light yellowish green chick with angry lime green eyebrows and beak. Kind of seems like an Angry Birds character. Pombon, a happy orange floofy Pomeranian dog-type creature. And Gecqua, a blue Littlest Pet Shop kind of style leopard gecko type creature. They have a light blue raindrop between their eyes.

[Spoilers!] Pokemon Winds and Waves New Starters

::: spoiler spoiler ___ ![Pokemon Winds and Waves Starter Pokemon](https://media.piefed.social/posts/Cr/U8/CrU8Q1DRGb9LdB1.jpeg) Ima…

pieland Feb 18

PeerTube-Browser

Peer Tube-Browser - Lemmy

I’ve built a project called PeerTube Browser — a platform that aggregates videos from (almost) all PeerTube instances into a single interface. The main idea is simple: improve discovery across the federated network. PeerTube is powerful, but finding interesting content across instances is still difficult. This project indexes videos and provides a custom recommendation system that I designed and implemented myself. It’s still evolving, but it already allows exploring content beyond a single instance’s local or federated feed. At the moment, data is collected via a crawler and the public PeerTube APIs. Instances are filtered using the public whitelist from joinpeertube.org [http://joinpeertube.org], plus several manual blocks to exclude unwanted content (pornography and other low‑quality or abusive material). The filtering approach is pragmatic and still evolving. The project is still at an early stage. The recommendation system is based on embedding vectors, ANN (approximate nearest neighbor) search, and user likes. All recommendation logic is executed server‑side. User likes are currently stored locally in the browser (localStorage), which allows generating personalized results without requiring account registration. In the future, I plan to make the recommendation system user‑configurable — allowing people to influence how results are ranked and what signals are prioritized. One of the core goals is to implement direct ActivityPub support, so the system can receive up‑to‑date data from instances in a more native and federated way, instead of relying primarily on crawling wherever possible. My goal is twofold: • Help viewers discover videos they wouldn’t normally encounter. • Help creators improve visibility and overall discovery within the PeerTube ecosystem. I have many ideas about how this system could evolve — especially around ranking, recommendation logic, and improving cross‑instance discovery — but before pushing further, I would really value feedback from people who actually use PeerTube. If you’re interested, you can try it here: https://peertube-browser.com/ [https://peertube-browser.com/] Please test it and share your thoughts. What works? What feels wrong? What would make it genuinely useful for you? Important note: the service is currently hosted on my personal workstation. I live in Ukraine, and due to electricity instability and the fact that I sometimes power down my machine, the site may occasionally be unavailable. At the moment I don’t have the resources to host it on a VPS or dedicated server. Despite these limitations, I’m committed to developing the project further — especially if there’s real interest and constructive feedback from the community. Thanks to anyone willing to test it and share their perspective.

pieland Feb 17

QR-Paint by bbbbbr

https://piefed.social/c/games/p/1787369/qr-paint-by-bbbbbr

pieland Feb 17

QR-Paint by bbbbbr

QR-Paint by bbbbbr - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

pieland Feb 17

QR-Paint by bbbbbr

https://piefed.social/c/gameboy/p/1787354/qr-paint-by-bbbbbr

pieland Feb 14

it’s not too late to fascinate a they/them, if you so choose

https://piefed.social/c/microblogmemes/p/1777986/its-not-too-late-to-fascinate-a-they-them-if-you-so-choose

pieland Feb 5

Nintendo Play Station

https://piefed.social/c/idiotsoffbmarketplace/p/1741422/nintendo-play-station