Theres many platforms to choose on peertube, does making account on one platform still works on other peertube platform? ELI5 the peertube

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    You can subscribe to peertube from Lemmy? How does that work? Do you use a community like !channel@instance

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Precisely, yep! It follows the same rules as subscribing to communities on Lemmy however - if you’re the first on an instance to subscribe, it may not pull the full backlog of videos - and at least one person needs to be subscribed for the instance to continue getting updates from the channel.

      Try heading to [email protected] for example, and you’ll see Nick’s channel come up as a community and each video that they upload will be its own “post”.

      Note that when you lookup stuff on PeerTube, you have to use the channel name - not the uploader’s username. So the one I linked would work, but if you replaced the start with thelinuxexperiment it wouldn’t work, since that is a user and not a channel.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        My home instance hopefully won’t download the actual videos right? It’ll just create posts where the link is to the peertube post?

      • @Xeroxchasechase
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        14 months ago

        Wow this is so convenient! It should be the first selling point of all this federated internet