So I’ve been trying to get into peertube and away from google, but I’m having trouble finding a frontend to actually use peertube, or perhaps I’m missing something with how to use peertube. Does anyone have any recommendations for this?
- PeerTube has its own frontend (User Interface). Do you mean a “provider”/instance like PeerTube.wtf? 
- I have created a Mastodon list just for PeerTube “subscriptions”. I just swap over and then have a list only full of videos. On mobile the Surf app could do something similar. - That’s actually genius. I love ActivityPub. 
 
- There’s the mobile app for Android, and on my Desktop I just use the website. 
- I use grayjay (android and I think desktop now too?), which works for most streaming services, such as PeerTube, YouTube, Nebula, etc. One app for all the things. - I got it installed and it’s pretty neat, but YouTube doesn’t work on it, just PeerTube. - Really? It works well for me on my phone with everything I’ve tried on it (YT, PeerTube, Rumble, Nebula, Twitch, and Odyssee). - It seems to have worked now, probably because I opened it for the first time. It’s really nice, great way to degoogle this necessity. - Is it normal that it’s a little slow? - Yeah, there are certainly delays opening videos, refreshing subscriptions can take time, and searching is slow and often unhelpful. You can disable some services if you want to speed things up a bit. 
 
 
 
 
- The website works fine. I don’t understand the app obcession people have. Though newpipe is an option if you must - Hang on, what website? That’s what I’m looking for, not an application or whatever. - Whichever peertube instance you are viewing the video from. Makertube, urbanists.video are two that I use 
 
 
- PeerTube isn’t a single website like YouTube - it’s a decentralized platform with many different “instances” (seperate websites) that all talk to each other, so you just pick one instance like peertube.wtf or peer.tube to start watching and creating content. - Oh my god, I figured out what I’ve been doing wrong, somehow I’ve always browsed in local without realizing so I thought peertube didn’t have cross-instance functionality. So I was confused on how to actually browse all of peertube 
 
- Im only aware of the main one, is there alternatives? Do you mean like themes? - So, it seems like I’m not aware of what the main one is. Whats the link for it? - Do you just want something like https://peer.tube/ - Yoy can find the whole list of public instances here: 
 
 
- I would add that several browser addons that send you to a peertube version of a youtube video exist as well. Can make life somewhat awkward though as quite often the peertube version is actually of a lower quallity. If you are a creator if you use an instance that allows youtube import you can also automagically import videos from YT to your PT channel as well 




