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Managed to clear out dozens of irrelevant #PeerTube instances I didn't want to follow. Still a ways to go, but my catalogue looks WAY BETTER.
This experience has given me a few thoughts on how to properly grow a PeerTube community. Auto-following the PeerTube index and every instance that follows you is 100% the wrong way to do it. You're drinking from an endless firehose that is mostly crap.
So, what do to?
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My thought is that maybe it's a better idea to instead follow a few instances at most when starting out. This leads to a chicken-and-egg problem of "who's actually making something?" and "where is an actual community?"
Here's what I propose: start by bridging small community instances and personal instances together. Try to connect with people who are making videos, and in turn, make videos yourself. Basically, for this space in the fediverse to be useful at all, we have to create a man-made social graph that isn't just produced from uncurated automatic processes.
I'm very interested in following amateurs. That is, people who are making things in their spare time for fun. Maybe you're vlogging, maybe you're explaining a concept, maybe you're building a cool robot, maybe you do animation or skits in your spare time. Any of that is great, and I want to hear from you. Let's bridge together and try to start something.
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The funny thing is, paradoxically, navigating a federated graph in a meaningful way requires human recommendations rather than ultra-powerful search across every single instance.
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As an aside, I'm still strongly considering starting a new PeerTube instance specifically as a dedicated community for people who want to make videos. It would be specific and intentional and personal, rather than the hundreds of generic peertube.tld domains floating around.