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I struggle to use PeerTube, does it work like Lemmy in a sense that I can see videos from multiple instances into a single app?
It seemed to me that I can only use one instance at once
Discovery and search are a clusterfuck mess on peertube.
I follow some channels from lemmy and you see the videos as of they were posts.
Try Grayjay, it allows you to add many streaming platforms in one, and for PeerTube it has the option to turn on Sepia search - meaning all instances are searched and indexed together like you get for Lemmy.
This app seems amazing, is it developed by FUTO? These guys are great, they made FUTO Keyboard and Immich. I will give it a try, thank you!
They didn't make immich, they acquired it. They are currently funding development though.
Yes.
Peertube instances can be, like lemmy, federated with other instances. Meaning looking at one instance should show both its local content and the content of federated instances.
The official Peertube android app (no login required but needed for subscriptions afaik) shows you one instance at a time. You can change the selected instance, but im not sure how the app handles your logged in account instance and selected instance not being federate with eachother.
Peertubes official global search called sepiasearch will always link all results of your query to the original instance either way. There might be some nifty api thing that makes this play nice with peertube clients but im not sure.
There are unnoficial peertube apps with different approaches but the ones i tried (newpipe and thorium (reccomendations welcome!)) follow a similar pinciple to the offical android app but without account capability.
I hope that helps you with how peertube is 'intended' to be used. The way peertube gets the actual video file from federated instances is a bit beyond me but as far as i understand it its very close to torrenting.
It works exactly like Lemmy, yeah!
If your experience with PeerTube comes from their official app, the UI is kind of unintuitive to anyone familiar with the fediverse. I think they tried really hard to prioritize users not having to be signed in at all, if that makes sense?
It's supposed to, but your experience has also been mine for some reason.