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.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

EDIT: Egg on face time. Mea culpa.

After experimenting further with PeerTube channels, it seems both PeerTube channels and PeerTube accounts DO federate correctly.

So, it is fine to follow either PeerTube accounts or channels from Mastodon etc.

Apologies to everyone I confused with the previous version of this post. There used to be a problem with channel federation but it has apparently been solved.

I should have checked the latest situation before posting. I messed up, sorry.

[jamestdg@mastodon.world]

@FediTips that is strange, really should be left a lot more bold on peer tube

[mrfunkedude@mastodon.social]

@FediTips This is one of my issues with PeerTube. Why give the ability to create channels and account names for them if those names can't be followed? What's the point?

[ib@ohai.social]

@FediTips didn't get it. What is the difference between channel and account? As a viewer how can I see them apart?

[rrgeorge@raphus.social]

@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.

[yama@social.n0g.de]

@FediTips that sounds broken, are there any hints that they want to fix that?

[chartier@toot.cafe]

@FediTips Ok…….. what?

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@FediTips I don't understand the difference or how to encourage it but thanks...

[joshsjunkdrawer@mastodon.social]

@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.

[colo_lee@mstdn.social]

@Yama @FediTips yes, certainly does seem broken.

[forestine@sunny.garden]

@FediTips this is rather confusing behaviour

[noondlyt@hellions.cloud]

@FediTips

I am one of these people that may have done this. Thank you for the clarification!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Dette indlæg er slettet!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Dette indlæg er slettet!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@jwcph

It's a lot clearer to people who have a PeerTube account!

PeerTubers have to set up both the account and channels before they can upload videos, so they would be more aware of the differences.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@ib

If you see a PeerTube video shared on Mastodon etc, the user name above the video is the PeerTube account.

If you see a PeerTube video on a PeerTube website, there are two usernames below the video: a channel and an account.

If you see a PeerTube channel on a website, it will have a link to its parent account labelled "Owner Account" or "View Owner Account".

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Dette indlæg er slettet!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Dette indlæg er slettet!

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@FediTips I do have a Peertube account & I follow myself from Mastodon - but I don't know the difference you're referring to... https://makertube.net/c/dubya_cph_channel/videos

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

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.