@junesim63 @CriticalNateTheory

Welcome Nate

Feel free to ask if you want help with anything

There is also lots of support for new people on the website at https://fedi.tips (especially the "quick start" section at the top of the page).

@forestine

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.

@jwcph

Please do always say something!

It gets people to check whether what they say is right (which in this case it wasn't ).

@joshsjunkdrawer

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.

@chartier

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.

@rrgeorge

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.

@epp @Paulvanuf

Hi Paulvanuf, welcome

You can find lots of help for new people in the "quick start" section of the website at https://fedi.tips

There's a guide to discovering accounts to follow at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

If you already know someone who has also joined, you might want to exchange account addresses with them so you can follow each other. More about this at https://fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-address-how-do-i-follow-other-peoples-addresses-how-can-people-follow-my-address

If you want help with anything, please feel free to ask!

@colo_lee @Yama

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.

@incentive @koorogi @ib

I messed up, my info on the behaviour of channels vs accounts was out of date.

They have fixed the problem, both channels and accounts work fine in Mastodon etc.

Apologies for the confusion I caused, I've edited the original post to make all of this clear. I'll try to be more careful in future. Sorry.

@Mrfunkedude

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

@ailurocrat

Apparently they already did fix it and I hadn't noticed, the channels and accounts do now both federate correctly.

Apologies for the confusion caused by my claiming otherwise, I messed up. I've edited the original post to make all this clear.

@noondlyt

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.

@Mrfunkedude

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.

@JamesTDG

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

@jwcph

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.

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.

@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".

@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.