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I have been thinking about having my own instance of peertube to allow "unlimited" upload sizes and amounts. But I am afraid that I might not be discoverable in the majority of other instances.

Is there a way to "open up" your own instance? Or how does it work?

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[–] troed@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

The only thing I know is to have it listed at Sepia. If you're looking to have your content visible when people visit other Peertube instances I think they manually have to add yours to what they federate.

In general I still haven't managed to get Peertube to work for "consumption".

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can find more info here: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#following-a-platform

I used https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances to get all instances and then others will reach out as time goes on.

[–] Hiplobbe@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

NP! Just FYI it took a bit for my instance to get others subscribed to my instance a while back. You may find it a bit slower than other federated services. Im not 100% sure why that is, but after that initial period, it seems to do well.

[–] nachitima@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm currently working on the project called PeerTube-Browser that aims to make a situation better with content discoverability within PeerTube federation. The project is on a very early stage development, but I'm keep working on it and planning to do so further.

You can test it here: https://peertube-browser.com/
Project's repo: https://github.com/denikryt/PeerTube-browser
Also check out my original post about this project: https://piefed.social/c/peertube/p/1775631/peer-tube-browser

Share your thoughts about it!
You can also support it's development financially. I would really appreciate.