I’m planning to introduce Peertube to a fairly large group of people who are new to the fediverse. Which instance is the best in terms of how easy it is to get an account and watch federated content as well as having something to discover locally?
I would send people to the instance with the largest federation and open registration, which appears to be https://video.4d2.org/, according to https://instances.joinpeertube.org/
Putting everybody on one server defeats the whole purpose of federation, and eventually ends up with a single server owned by a single entity, just like YouTube.
Tell people to find the server that most aligns with their interests, location and philosophy, that is fairly active.
I’m not putting them all on 1 server. That server only has 254 users. It’s just the one with the most videos available.
Servers have nothing to do with interests, location and philosophy. The one with the most users has 219k.
Guess depending on the type of talk or course OP does, choosing the instance could be a nice part of the lesson! Demonstrates nicely what the Fediverse is and how it operates. Also teaches them to get on board the next Fedi platform all by themselves, once they choose to.
You’d obviously still need to prepare that lesson, though and have some kind of knowledge about the instances.
