It’s going to be awesome when we get an official PeerTube app for Android and iOS!

Who are they?

No, you cannot.

I would recommend you use this list: https://instances.joinpeertube.org

You should use an instance that has enabled global search and uses https://search.joinpeertube.org/. This way, you can find content, even though the instances is not federated.

Also, TILvids and Blender Videos are instances for specific videos, for “general purpose” instances to follow. Most of the above instances also use very old versions of PeerTube. We are at verison 6.0 now. So I think they might be inactive, therefore not following more instances.

Here’s an instance that does follow spectra.video > https://peertube.wtf (my instance), but I also only follow a select few instances, because there is a lot of crap being uploaded to the videoverse and that just makes for a worse experience.

There is nothing however that would keep you from searching for or following any channel, on peertube.wtf because global search is enabled.

That’s crazy! User/month goes from only 7.5k active to 27.8k. And that’s just people voting. What about people who only read a post?

True, could be nice to see data on content consumers, and not just the content creators.

You can already see how many posts and comments users make. Isn’t that the same?

It really should.

Take a look at this list: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=totalVideos

Sort by most followings and select the first with signups.

Which instances have you looked at? Most of the big instances federate with others. Except for Tilvids.com. You can still subscribe to other channels though.

You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

That’s why I said we can hope they expand on the remote runners, so that people can easily install a runner that could share bandwidth. Just like now we have runners, that are very easy to install, that can transcode videos.

Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.

Bandwidth is not one of the bigger issues with PeerTube and that’s coming from someone who hosts a PeerTube instance. Obviously you will have issues, if you host PeerTube on a slow internet connection.

My only wish is that they support sharing bandwidth without having to host a peertube instance.

Remote runners for transcoding video already exists, so I think it’s plausible that we could get something for redundancy / help with bandwidth as well.

Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube. If multiple people are watching is watching the same video, they share bandwidth and lots of PeerTube instances have redundancy enabled.

A much bigger issue is storage.

What’s even worse, they are removing the possibility to share bandwidth without hosting a peertube instance:

Hardly any instance uses webtorrent, as HLS provides a much better viewing experience. HLS also support P2P.

It depends on two things. What are you yourself subscribed to and what is your instance subscribed.

You only see the communities on your instance’s “all”, that other users and you is subscribed to. So if a majority of the users on Lemmy.zip is subscribed to various Linux communities, then that’s what you see.

I don’t see a majority of Linux communities on my “all”.

Why does P2P suck? It’s not bandwidth that’s the issue, it’s storage.

I think Mobilizon is very country and local specific. What I mean is, most groups I’m a member of on Facebook, is local community groups or very niche groups for people from my country.

So it makes sense that there’s not an international Mobilizon instance.

It’s the people who also made PeerTube, that’s behind this. It can only be good.

What PeerTube lacks is content creators. There is tilvids.com, but a lot of the content is just mirrored from YouTube and running a PeerTube instance can be expensive.

Tilvids.com and from there you can subscribe to anyone a cross the videoverse.

If the instance becomes so big, that it depends on donations, then it is too big.

Their problem is that they allowed themselves to become too big and unsustainable in the long run.