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Peertube
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A free software to take back control of your videos
Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.
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Nobody is talking about it, because it doesn't have a central front page for the videos with a global search box. Like this it's just a fancy video hosting software, nothing that stupid masses can use.
Yeah, without the ability to search in a useful way, it's useless for a viewer that isn't already aware of a specific instance and its contents.
That isn't about stupidity, it's simply that it's useless for the kind of viewing YouTube is.
I've also had VERY mixed luck with linked videos loading. It does work sometimes, but I feel like I'm rolling the dice every time I try one.
There is SepiaSearch, but yeah, it specifically poses itself as just a search box, because a centralized front page is antithetical to decentralization...
Not really. Like searx, dozens of people can host decentralized but whole network spanning search instances. I think sepiasearch itself could be selfhosted.
PeerTube work just like Lemmy, when it comes to federation. If you are on the front page of Lemmy.wtf you only see content that is federated specifically with lemmy.wtf. On PeerTube.wtf you also only see content that is federated. However, PeerTube support a “global search” that uses SepiaSearch and SepiaSearch knows about pretty much every PeerTube instance. So when you use the search box on peertube.wtf, it will search beyond the instances that federates with peertube.wtf.