Limited variety, hit-or-miss playback, and Youtube hasn't quite enshittified enough for me to quit.
I would mirror my videos to PeerTube if I were to create content. Alas, I am merely a consumer.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2026
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Apathy.
I remember when youtube first came out. Thinking it was some kind of online TV, I searched for "The Simpsons" and got no results besides a low-quality upload of The Bartman music video. I decided there wasn't really anything there for me and I left, not returning until several years later when there was content there that I wanted to watch and couldn't find on TV. Now I primarily watch youtube, and again I find myself not wanting to switch to peertube until there's enough content there that I want to watch but can't find on youtube.
There is nothing to watch unfortunately. Especially out of tech
I use Peertube as a viewer, not as a creator. It's a vicious cycle: too few people mirror their channels on the Fediverse, which means too few people follow the channels that do appear there, which makes other creators wary of bothering with Peertube. Add to that the cost of hosting large videos in the long term, and the options become scarce for novices, as most instances need to be invite-only and with limited storage per user.
On YouTube there's the algorithm. Watch one video and yeah half the recommendations are right wing trash and pseudosience but there may be something good somewhere.
On Peertube, discovering new things is practically impossible. Also, half the videos I tried didn't even play.
In open for suggestions though
it's all right wing trash because they exclude left wing content via demonization -- you should expect anything besides it from corporate platforms since right wing content is pro-profit content.
That just simply isn't true. My feed is like 50% left-wing content, the rest isn't political at all.
I get a ton of left wing stuff recommended in my feed and no right wing trash. As much as the algorithm has degraded, it can learn things like this from what you watch and like.