@peertube this is still really cool though, but it sucks that the platform still requires running a bloated browser for finding videos. (but at least youtube-dl supports it somewhat)

@grainloom @peertube so you would like to have... native client?
I appreciate the goal but I don't think the they have capacity for this.. unless some volunteer emerges ofc

@charlag @peertube no, just make search work without JS.
just use HTML.
Youtube can be browsed without JS. It's not an impossible task.

@grainloom @peertube yes but the player itself is p2p, how do you do this without JS. With normal videos you can ofc drop <video /> into HTML and call it a day

@charlag @peertube You don't actually need the player.
You can already play them in anything that uses youtube-dl (eg.: Celluloid) and you can use a regular torrent client to download the whole video (and hopefully seed it, although i haven't successfully done that so far).

But you can't get at the video's link or the torrent file without JS.

@grainloom @peertube okay, I get it. It shouldn't be hard to write even third-party thing for that (like Brutaldon) or even a native program.

@charlag @peertube sure, but a third party client will lag behind in feature support.
well, whatever.

@grainloom @peertube there are plenty of Mastodon clients and lag is usually not that bad. Peertube search is even simpler.

@charlag @peertube i'm fine with having to play videos over youtube-dl/libmpv (although that means i can't seed them), but it sucks majorly that simply searching for videos or looking at a channel is made impossible because the whole UI is rendered in JS.

@peertube
Reasons:
- peertube presents me many videos in languages that I do not understand.
- the content is indexed and sorted by a machine, that does a pretty bad job in sorting interesting content.
- I saw often content from fascists and conspiracy theorist

proposal: let humans do the curation of content.

@syster @peertube hey! I run a personal instance, here are a few things that helped me:

1. Language: it's possible to filter videos to just a set of languages. This lives in your account settings.

2. Context sorting is definitely not great, but subscribing directly to channels helps. Additionally, I've found that it's possible to just subscribe to a few other instances from the admin side, rather than subscribing to the index. Keeping those connections low and intentional helps cut down on the amount of clutter coming in.

3. Similarly to my second point, it greatly helps to only connect to a few instances in the beginning, ideally ones with a ToS and moderation policies. You might want to check out this: https://join.peertube.social/

@sean @peertube
thank you for your answer!

1. oh, my fault. I need to try it again

2. My main point is: I'd like to have a video plattform that is supporting and spreading community curated content that is just nice what ever that is for them. No bigotry, no conspiracy theories...

I don't feel welcome in platforms that are by their design spreading it more then it would need to be. And I can't advice such platforms to others, if this is the case.
1/2

@sean @peertube

As I undertand it, they have choosen quantity over quality.
And as you describe, they could very easy change that, by changing the default settings.

Or am I misunderstanding/overreacting?

2/3

@sean @peertube
3.
https://join.peertube.social/ looks so much better then what I find from #peertubes official instance picker. **Every time** I try it, I find either something that is related to fascism or conspiracy theories.

Every single time I check in. Sometimes it's very obvious that it is such content, sometimes not.

This time I randomly picked an instance choose "news/politics" and "people".
3/4

@sean @peertube
4/3
The first instance that @peertube promoted to me shows an instance that lists multible times on their frontpage a turkish serie called "Kurulus Osman".

Politicly this serie is used to spread Neo-Osmanism and therefor the sort of facism Erdogan is pushing towards.
4/5

@sean @peertube

5/5
While invading Syria/Rojava, Erdogan portrayed himself on their set and spoke to the public. Meetings as such have happen several times. Erdogan and his followers identify with Neo-Osmanism. The great strong Patriarch increasing through imperialism their nation and nationalism.

@sean @peertube
remarks: It could be, that I'm oversensitive to this topic.
But I prefer that, in contrast to accepting to much.

@syster
I will agree here, its not easy to find things to watch. And i want to make videos for it, but finding a sutivel instence hasen't been that easy unfortunetly.