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Föderation EN Do 24.04.2025 15:30:04

πŸ•οΈ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 128 (a bit Clueless edition) πŸŽ¬β€‹

Bonjour Fedi friends!

I'm having a really interesting week: 4 adult caretakers in a house with 3 little children... as I admitted to someone on here, self-hosting is FAR easier than being a referee in fights about LEGOs πŸ˜…β€‹

Now, whenever the cousins are busy playing in the garden, I try to do a bit of work, namely: figuring out #PeerTube from the POV of a self-hoster.

Yesterday I finally understood how I could create a user account (other than "root" - the superuser created during the PeerTube installation).

Today I'm busy trying to solve another problem: how do you tell your followers you've moved to a new instance? Because yes, PeerTube is powered by #ActivityPub, but it doesn't support the MOVE function.

I rarely posted on my MakerTube account and only have 150 subscribers, who followed me when reading about it on my blog post about PeerTube.

But I have to admit, the whole "following" thing is really convoluted on PeerTube because you can follow an entire account or specific channels. And I'm a little lost regarding how I notify my followers about the change.

If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears!

Oh and some news for you first... here is my new PeerTube home: https://videos.elenarossini.com/a/ele/video-channels

Special thanks to :YunoHost:​
@yunohost
for empowering me to set up my own instance ❀️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #video

Föderation EN Do 24.04.2025 20:46:02

@elena @yunohost
Uh I feel you. It took me a while to even notice that some people didn't follow my account but a certain channel.
In the end I posted a video mentioning that I move.

Föderation EN Fr 25.04.2025 17:02:30

@hikingdude it's thanks to @FediTips that I finally understood the distinction between a subscription to an account vs. the channel... I find the whole thing rather convoluted to be honest. I may have to record a video next week telling people about the move, gaaah

Föderation EN Fr 25.04.2025 19:11:19

@elena @FediTips
πŸ˜€ I know how you feel. An alternative would be to message all subscribers and tell them the new account. - still not cool but at least you don't need a video

Föderation EN Fr 25.04.2025 19:37:39

@hikingdude @FediTips I know! But it’s such a mess - 150 subscribers to the account plus another number for a channel and another for another channel - it’s a mess 🫠

Föderation EN Fr 25.04.2025 22:23:36

@hikingdude @elena

It depends where they're following from, follows of channels from other PeerTube instances work fine.

But follows from Mastodon have to be following the account or the videos won't federate 😞