When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn't take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there's full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it's just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I'm not sure how I didn't notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

That’s great to aspire for but there’s still an almost total lack of content in many genres I enjoy on YouTube. I don’t even think PeerTube has progressed as far as the Lemmy community in terms of content availability. Admittedly this is probably because text and image content is much easier to create, but as a user I don’t find much reason to spend time there yet.

So if you don’t want a monetized model, there is still a need to have another solution to the lack of content, and I haven’t seen one yet.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

What kinda stuff do you like on youtube?

https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

(thanks again to @meldrik@lemmy.wtf for maintaining this awesome list)

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not the person you're asking, but I mostly watch craft stuff, particularly 1:12 scale dollhouse miniatures and sewing. The most recent video I could find that was even remotely relevant is several months old and about a different kind of miniature.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Best you can do is ask some of these content creators to also post their videos to PeerTube.

PeerTube has built-in syncing of YouTube channels, so it’s fairly easy once it’s set up.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why would they do that without any monetary incentive at all?

I mean, I guess what I'm saying is if you can post to YouTube and get paid, why would you intentionally choose to post to PeerTube and not get paid?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Because Google ads isn’t the only source of income nor the biggest.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 2 hours ago

but it the most well known....