So I’ve been trying to get into peertube and away from google, but I’m having trouble finding a frontend to actually use peertube, or perhaps I’m missing something with how to use peertube. Does anyone have any recommendations for this?

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

I would add that several browser addons that send you to a peertube version of a youtube video exist as well. Can make life somewhat awkward though as quite often the peertube version is actually of a lower quallity. If you are a creator if you use an instance that allows youtube import you can also automagically import videos from YT to your PT channel as well

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    PeerTube has its own frontend (User Interface). Do you mean a “provider” like PeerTube.wtf?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have created a Mastodon list just for PeerTube “subscriptions”. I just swap over and then have a list only full of videos. On mobile the Surf app could do something similar.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There's the mobile app for Android, and on my Desktop I just use the website.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I use grayjay (android and I think desktop now too?), which works for most streaming services, such as PeerTube, YouTube, Nebula, etc. One app for all the things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I got it installed and it's pretty neat, but YouTube doesn't work on it, just PeerTube.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Really? It works well for me on my phone with everything I've tried on it (YT, PeerTube, Rumble, Nebula, Twitch, and Odyssee).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It seems to have worked now, probably because I opened it for the first time. It's really nice, great way to degoogle this necessity.

    Is it normal that it's a little slow?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    PeerTube isn't a single website like YouTube - it's a decentralized platform with many different "instances" (seperate websites) that all talk to each other, so you just pick one instance like peertube.wtf or peer.tube to start watching and creating content.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh my god, I figured out what I’ve been doing wrong, somehow I’ve always browsed in local without realizing so I thought peertube didn’t have cross-instance functionality. So I was confused on how to actually browse all of peertube

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Im only aware of the main one, is there alternatives? Do you mean like themes?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The website works fine. I don't understand the app obcession people have. Though newpipe is an option if you must

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