Peertube has a lot of great potential, however it can be hard to find content on it. Sepia Search works, but it doesn’t always show videos from all local servers. My suggested feature is, some sort of Lemmy communities like feature for Peertube where local servers can create communities for specific types of videos. The communities ideally would be managed at the server level made on any Peertube server. users on and off the server could have an ability to upload to the community a video related to that topic.
I feel if Peertube does this, this is the missing features it needs, and then give it about 2-4 years and it might have more activity, and content because now people can more easily find specific content.
I think that’s a very good idea, both mastodon and peertube suffer from discover ability problems where Lemmy excells, and it is because how the posting is organized that you already need to know about a Chanel and follow them to get notified about their videos.
Sepia Search shows videos from pretty much all instances. 1265 to be exact.
Yes, but the search results don’t seem to pull up all videos from them on it.
Do you have an example? Because it should be capable of that.
Sometimes i’l search for a specific video, and i’l have to go to a peertube server to then find it on the fediverse. (not on the local video feed.)
I feel like communities that work directly on local servers would work better. as for example: i’l search for something like Rayman 2 (video game) The sepia Search results will only seem to show results for the Gameboy game. However if I search directly on some Peertube instance, it will show the game boy color and the console release gameplay.
here is the sepia Search results: for “Rayman 2”
and here is some server providing better coverage for specific video content through the “Vidverse.” feature enabled in search filters.
edit: better coverage because it shows: videos that are on Peertube, related to my search results. Sepia search showed one of the Gameboy color game while a single Peertube server had results for the Gameboy color and the console release of the game.
This is my evidence that Sepia Search is missing videos on search results that should be there.
"This is because Sepia Search has a much larger index of videos than https://periscope.numenaute.org/
Here’s a search for “Rayman 2” at PeerTube.wtf, which uses the same index as Sepia Search: https://peertube.wtf/search?sort=-match&searchTarget=search-index&resultType=videos&search=rayman+2
This is why I was suggesting a community like feature similar to Lemmy, for Peertube.
