I have always found following peertube channels from mastodon to be a rough and cumbersome experience, especially since the mastodon clients do not display videos, they need an external browser.

I found that Newpipe can show peertube videos and supports channel membership, with optional notification for new publications. It also shows likes and comments. A very smooth experience.

I guess my initial problem would be solved with peertube redirect, allowing me to open peertube videos from mastodon in Newpipe, but for now I don’t feel I need this further step

  • middlemanSI@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 days ago

    Newpipe is great. You can even export your subscriptions from google and import…No ads, automatic sponsor segment skipping, background play with locked phone, mini player like pip…The downside is that google is actively changing things to break things, so we have to update the app every so often. Simply go to newpipe to dl apk.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      It hasn’t broken for me in a hot minute, its been nice. Last time was when the age verification stuff started rolling out I think.

      I love Newpipe.

    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      4 days ago

      I don’t think the regular NewPipe has SponsorBlock. They don’t want to include it. NewPipe forks like Tubular and PipePipe have it though.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Works well for me too. I have both the official app for up/down vote capability but newpipe has an awesome offline subscription service.

    • lgsp@feddit.it@feddit.itOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      I didn’t find a good way to use tge official app: I don’t have a peertube account anywhere, and with a local account I found no way to subscribe to channels.

      Another thing that bugs me us that, if I have a link to a peertube video, I can’t use it to open the video in the app: copy pasting it in the search bar doesn’t work!

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I cant say i have the same issue. Not saying yours dont exist, but it does sound frustrating!

        For me, I have an account with my own server. And the share button on the linked peertube video works pretty well, its how I post onto this community. I signed in with the official android app onto my server and it hooked up no problem. All my subscriptions are there as well as the functionality.

        I know some people use peertube.wtf or https://makertube.net/ to sign up and use these as their home servers. Might help?

        • lgsp@feddit.it@feddit.itOP
          1·
          3 days ago

          I thought opening a peertube account as you suggest, but I find it is a bit of a waste to have yet another personal fediverse account, to do something I can theoretically do with a mastodon one,: follow peertube channels, like and comment videos.

          I see 2 solutions thst would be right fit

          • a mastodon client that can visualize peertube videos. Fecilab probably can Di that, bu I like Pachli most
          • an app to watch peertube videos that opens when I click a peertube link. In theory “peertube redirect” can do exactly this, but I tried to set it up with newpipe an it didn’t work.

          No big deal: with Newpipe subscription and following accounts from mastodon, I can already do what I want without a big fuss 🙂