Peertube has a lot of great potential, however it can be hard to find content on it. Sepia Search works, but it doesn’t always show videos from all local servers. My suggested feature is, some sort of Lemmy communities like feature for Peertube where local servers can create communities for specific types of videos. The communities ideally would be managed at the server level made on any Peertube server. users on and off the server could have an ability to upload to the community a video related to that topic.
I feel if Peertube does this, this is the missing features it needs, and then give it about 2-4 years and it might have more activity, and content because now people can more easily find specific content.
and here is some server providing better coverage for specific video content through the “Vidverse.” feature enabled in search filters.
edit: better coverage because it shows: videos that are on Peertube, related to my search results. Sepia search showed one of the Gameboy color game while a single Peertube server had results for the Gameboy color and the console release of the game.
This is my evidence that Sepia Search is missing videos on search results that should be there.
This is because Sepia Search has a much larger index of videos than https://periscope.numenaute.org/
Here’s a search for “Rayman 2” at PeerTube.wtf, which uses the same index as Sepia Search: https://peertube.wtf/search?sort=-match&searchTarget=search-index&resultType=videos&search=rayman+2
This is why I was suggesting a community like feature similar to Lemmy, for Peertube.