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by crispyporkbites
1667 days ago
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It took me a long time to find it, but this is "the" search engine for PeerTube: https://sepiasearch.org/ This could be a reasonable entry point for a non-technical user who just wants to watch videos. If you layer in recommendations system, trending etc. and have a default "Instance" for users to join, Peertube could start to compete with the user experience of YouTube |
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First, a default instance is definitely a bad idea if you're trying to build a decentralized network of tube site servers, and it increases cost on a central entity in the network (probably framasoft who would be hosting the "default" server). The whole idea is for there not to be a central server.
Recommendations and trending are architecturally untenable as well as antithetical. When you're collecting whatever criteria makes a video "good" from disparate servers across the web you introduce a ton of bandwidth and other issues. And why would anyone want some algorithm deciding for them what they feel like watching? Beyond that, something like this is hard to get right, you're more likely to get it wrong and wind up with pissed off users.