If you want people on Mastodon etc to follow your PeerTube, it's important that you encourage them to follow your PeerTube account instead of your PeerTube channel.
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@FediTips Good to know. Thanks for clueing me in. I had no idea that had been fixed.
It's quite difficult to tell unless you have a single-user Mastodon instance where you're not following external accounts or relays and also a PeerTube account you can publish to.
Luckily I do have all this and was able to narrow down the behaviour. Just wish I had done this BEFORE posting about the topic
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My fault, I messed up, there isn't a problem after all. Apologies for causing confusion about this, I will try to be more careful in future.
@FediTips Hey, I'm kinda glad I said something - I thought it was just be being a little thick, which is usually the case
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I've got to apologise, because it turns out they have fixed it.
Channels and accounts can both be followed from Mastodon etc and they will both work.
The problem had been around for so long, I had no idea it had been fixed. I just did some experiments to confirm that following channels does now work from Mastodon.
I've edited the original post to make all of this clear. Sorry for the confusion and I'll try to do better next time.
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@FediTips The channel boosts videos posted by the peertube account in that channel. So you’ll only see the videos posted to that channel from that account. If you follow both the account and the channel however, you will not really see the boosts because mastodon filters out the display of boosts of posts already in your timeline.
I just did a test on my own peertube server to confirm, and I only followed a channel. When posting to that channel, the video showed up in my mastodon timeline as a boost from that channel.Yup, you're absolutely right, this works now. Also confirmed this from my own PeerTube and Mastodon instance.
It used to be that videos didn't show up if you followed the channel alone, but now they do.
Apologies for the confusion caused, I've edited the original post to make the true situation clear.
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@FediTips Ok…….. what?
Please ignore my original post, it turns out they have now fixed this problem. PeerTube channels and accounts now work fine on Mastodon.
Apologies for the confusion caused, I've edited the original post to make this clear.
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@FediTips I love Peertube, but how the way they handle accounts/channels. Accounts being separate from channels sounds good on paper, but it makes it confusing to the average person.
It's one of the reasons why I keep my Peertube channel separate from my Mastodon account.
I messed up, it turns out that the difference isn't as confusing as it used to be, PeerTube channels do now work correctly when you follow them from Mastodon etc.
Apologies for the confusion caused, I've edited my original post to make all this clear.
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@FediTips Hey, I'm kinda glad I said something - I thought it was just be being a little thick, which is usually the case
Please do always say something!
It gets people to check whether what they say is right (which in this case it wasn't
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@FediTips this is rather confusing behaviour
It seems they have now fixed this behaviour and it now works the way you would expect it to.
I thought it hadn't been fixed, but it had been. Apologies for the confusion caused by my original post, I've edited it to make all this clear.
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I've updated the original post, anyone who shared it ought to check out the new version.
Very sorry to have caused unnecessary confusion for everyone, I have edited the original post to try to reduce the confusion at source.
The federation problem was around for so long that I assumed it was still here and didn't bother checking before doing the post. I'll be more careful in future.
Incidentally, this fix also means that the "magazines" of Flipboard accounts also now federate correctly.
@FediTips one peertube problem I have seen: shared posts on my timeline don’t include the longer descriptions, only the title.
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I've updated the original post, anyone who shared it ought to check out the new version.
Very sorry to have caused unnecessary confusion for everyone, I have edited the original post to try to reduce the confusion at source.
The federation problem was around for so long that I assumed it was still here and didn't bother checking before doing the post. I'll be more careful in future.
Incidentally, this fix also means that the "magazines" of Flipboard accounts also now federate correctly.
@FediTips I actually do think that what people want to do almost all of the time is follow the PeerTube user so I support the sentiment. The channels seem to confuse people. You see them follow a channel, then the user, then the other channel.
I think people worry they haven't followed the right thing, or enough things, and follow until there is no following left.
We really need some "parent account" standard and UI on the Fediverse. -
@FediTips I actually do think that what people want to do almost all of the time is follow the PeerTube user so I support the sentiment. The channels seem to confuse people. You see them follow a channel, then the user, then the other channel.
I think people worry they haven't followed the right thing, or enough things, and follow until there is no following left.
We really need some "parent account" standard and UI on the Fediverse.Yeah, the username on a PeerTube video as seen from Mastodon can definitely be confusing, especially if the channel and account names/avatars are totally different.
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@FediTips one peertube problem I have seen: shared posts on my timeline don’t include the longer descriptions, only the title.
Yeah, this is frustrating.
I just had a look at the Mastodon and PeerTube Githubs, I'm not 100% sure which platform is the problem but I've raised this as an issue at https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7207
Let's see what happens.
