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LBRY is a neat idea, but all the wacko extremists that managed to somehow get kicked off YouTube have taken it over and scared off most of the sane people. There are some good tech videos that still get mirrored there, but overall it's not a good experience.
Peertube seems like an even better idea, but so far it's catching on even less. Maybe someday it will get popular enough to be great, but for now it's kind of just not very useful. The big thing it's missing that I think is stopping it from catching on is an effective way of finding videos you might be interested in, especially from smaller instances.
Going to a PeerTube home page feels like a weird mix of Interdimensional Cable and very early YouTube.
Discoverability is almost 0 and I can’t easily find any videos that I’d like to watch, as you said. I assume most people would leave once they see what’s on the home page.
It’s probably cause most instance owners disable global search to avoid having to moderate too much. Taking as owner of own PeerTube instance. About LBRY it’s great project I have been working with it for a long time. Thing that I liked about it is that we have actual content distribution server in opposite of PeerTube where most time video is being stored on single server.
I have a peertube instance. I can't get anyone to really care outside of the fediverse. I think peertube has a big chance to come out on top if so many new people are trying out the fediverse for the first time. getting everything to integrate properly would be a godsend.