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You can follow other instances in peertube as user, but it's not straight forward. You have to copy-paste the link of the user, video, or channel in the search bar, then follow. It's a bizarre way of doing things and mastodon has something similar too.
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@onlinepersona @thegiddystitcher that's actually what I am doing. I found I can just follow all these peertube users from Mastodon, so that's what I do
That's definitely the way to go for now. PT is pretty ok software from the creator pov but it's atrocious as someone just looking to view! We'll see how things develop, maybe that changes at some point.
Yes you can follow channels from other servers without much of a problem. The issue that this on something like Lemmy or Mastodon, that follow would then bring the followed content into the search results of your server. It doesn't seem to work that way on PT.
Example: I have two channels on makertube.net. My husband follows them both, from another PT server (I can't remember which). But just the act of him following doesn't mean my channel shows up in a search from his server.
That's unfortunate. However, to say "they don't federate" is still fake news. They do, just not like Mastodon does.
Is there a feature request for PT to rectify this?
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