Any recommendations for peertube frontends?
from guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2025 05:36
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49863480

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?

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Gexilla@lemmy.zip on 27 Jul 2025 06:27 next collapse

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.

muhyb@programming.dev on 27 Jul 2025 08:23 collapse

That’s actually genius. I love ActivityPub.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 27 Jul 2025 07:42 next collapse

PeerTube has its own frontend (User Interface). Do you mean a “provider”/instance like PeerTube.wtf?

3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com on 27 Jul 2025 10:41 next collapse

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

gravitywell@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2025 12:32 next collapse

Im only aware of the main one, is there alternatives? Do you mean like themes?

guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Jul 2025 17:15 collapse

So, it seems like I’m not aware of what the main one is. Whats the link for it?

gravitywell@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2025 18:44 collapse

Do you just want something like peer.tube

Yoy can find the whole list of public instances here:

instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

sam@lemmy.ca on 27 Jul 2025 13:33 next collapse

There’s the mobile app for Android, and on my Desktop I just use the website.

bluGill@fedia.io on 27 Jul 2025 18:30 next collapse

The website works fine. I don't understand the app obcession people have. Though newpipe is an option if you must

guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Jul 2025 18:31 collapse

Hang on, what website? That’s what I’m looking for, not an application or whatever.

bluGill@fedia.io on 27 Jul 2025 19:51 collapse

Whichever peertube instance you are viewing the video from. Makertube, urbanists.video are two that I use

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2025 23:05 next collapse

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.

thehamzan6@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 18:59 collapse

I got it installed and it’s pretty neat, but YouTube doesn’t work on it, just PeerTube.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 05 Aug 22:22 collapse

Really? It works well for me on my phone with everything I’ve tried on it (YT, PeerTube, Rumble, Nebula, Twitch, and Odyssee).

thehamzan6@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 05:45 collapse

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?

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 06 Aug 13:43 collapse

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.

MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world on 02 Aug 20:56 collapse

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.

guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Aug 23:05 collapse

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