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:

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    • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Kichae@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        On the other hand, more and more video creators on YouTube make the bulk of their money off of Patreon, rather than YouTube ads, and if it were possible to increase their Patreon subscriptions by posting to PeerTube as well as YouTube, interesting things could happen.

        That would really surface the cost of video hosting, though

      • marfey@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Most Podcasts live off of Patreon and no compensation from hosting services. And still they are out there. I don’t see the difference to videos. The only thing youtube has over peertube is visibility. But one can argue peertube in combination with some other fediverse service like Mastodon or Lemmy can fix this and give you more visibility for your videos.

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    1 year ago

    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?