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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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.
@FediTips Ok…….. what?
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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.
@FediTips I don't understand the difference or how to encourage it but thanks...
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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.
@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.
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@FediTips that sounds broken, are there any hints that they want to fix that?
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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.
@FediTips this is rather confusing behaviour
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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.
I am one of these people that may have done this. Thank you for the clarification!
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@FediTips this is rather confusing behaviour
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@FediTips I don't understand the difference or how to encourage it but thanks...
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.
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@FediTips didn't get it. What is the difference between channel and account? As a viewer how can I see them apart?
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".
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@FediTips Ok…….. what?
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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.
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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 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
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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.
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.
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@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
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.
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@FediTips that is strange, really should be left a lot more bold on peer tube
I messed up totally on this, it turns out that this has been fixed now. I should have checked about this before doing the post.
Apologies
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@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?
I'm really embarassed to tell you that this has already been fixed and channels do now federate correctly so you can follow them from Mastodon etc (though they are displayed in Mastodon as boosting the account's videos).
Apologies for causing confusion about an old already-fixed bug. I've corrected the original post to stop the incorrect info going any further.
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I am one of these people that may have done this. Thank you for the clarification!
Apologies, it turns out this has already been fixed.
It was around so long that I didn't check if it was fixed before posting about it.
So, it is actually okay to follow channels and accounts from Masotdon etc.
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I'm really embarassed to tell you that this has already been fixed and channels do now federate correctly so you can follow them from Mastodon etc (though they are displayed in Mastodon as boosting the account's videos).
Apologies for causing confusion about an old already-fixed bug. I've corrected the original post to stop the incorrect info going any further.
@FediTips Good to know. Thanks for clueing me in. I had no idea that had been fixed.
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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
