Here is a comment I posted on one of the videos of @thelinuxexperiment@tilvids.com
https://tilvids.com/w/h8BKcxxixYFE8RekmR5Ux3;threadId=29688
This is helpful as you don’t need to create a Peertube account if you want to engage in the video’s comment section.
EDIT: Subscribing to the user like a Community is better than searching the video. Try this link if works in your instance - !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com
So if I understand, your instance needs to “discover” the user then subscribe to it before it shows up in your feed
However, you need to search the video in Lemmy before you can post your comment. I’m not yet sure why but my lemmy username is not (yet?) recognized in Peertube page:
So we have decentralised versions or Twitter, Reddit and YouTube? What a great time this is.
And Instagram. PixelFed’s really good.
Oh, and Goodreads. BookWyrm doesn’t get enough love.
There’s also Mobilizon, a federated events calendar and groups platform.
And a whole bunch of other stuff, but, like PeerTube, they’re somewhat content sparse at the moment.
Meh, decentralized youtube alternatives have practically nothing interesting.
Social media and forums, I can see them getting replaced. Social media and forums are about the people, powered by discussion amongst peers. Decentralized Social platforms will thrive if there’s enough people. A video platform? Videos take a lot more effort and only a small percentage of users are really “content creators”. These content creators typically want to get paid for so much effort they put in to the videos, so it’s really unlikely a decentralized platform can provide adequate compensation. Youtube ain’t going away anytime soon whether you like it or not.
TLDR; Video Platforms =/= Social medias and Forums.
Subscribing to the user like a Community
Being pedantic for the sake of clarifying why this works when Lemmy doesn’t let you follow users: You’re subscribing to a PeerTube channel, and just like with YouTube, users can have multiple channels. PeerTube uses an ActivityPub group for channels, just as Lemmy uses them for communities.
Oh really? This fediverse thing is awesome! 😃
Edit: So how do I search the video in Lemmy?
Edit 2: I tried searching a channel like this: !igem_community@video.igem.org and nothing happend after clicking the search button 10 times. I check the instances and the peertube instance isn’t blocked but also isn’t “linked”. I’m not sure this is even working.
Edit 3: It worked! https://video.igem.org/w/fy4txsfL2A33eUPmQgZLFp look at my comment! 😃 All I did was put the link in the Lemmy search bar and clicked search a few times.
Do I need a peertube account to search peertube, or can I use my Lemmy account? How do I access peertube if I just wanted to browse videos on there?
I don’t know how to search from lemmy but there’s a general search: https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content And you can search/browse each instance too