Good day all! I'm starting up a Peertube instance that'll be moderated for folks, hopefully backed by donations through my nonprofit org BT Free. I'm going to work on setting up Peertube next week. But I was thinking of setting up a moderated index.
Looking at the following link, in the "PeerTube auto follow & Global Search" section: https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/instances-peertube
It seems I can just create a file, put that code in there, set the hosts I want, and then any Peertube can go to Admin - Settings - Configuration - Basic - Search Index URL - and then put in https://ptindex.btfee.org/ . Is this correct?
If so, does anyone know if Peertube can refresh it's host list or if it refreshes on a timer or something?
I'll update if I find out the answer as well.
EDIT: Ok so already realized there's a "Search Index URL" under the "Enable global search" for managing what servers you users can search on. Then there's also a "Index URL" under the "Automatically follow instances of a public index" which you can follow. Awesome. I have it there, but not updated ... yet?
Thank you for the info. I've unfollowed everyone and set my instance to pull from ptindex.btfree.org and it's not autofollowing yet. So either I messed something up or it's on a timer. I have a question into the Matrix channel. Gonna let it go a few days, then next week I'll dig into it more and open a git question about it. I'll definitely update here what I find out! Thank you!
And great idea about cross posting. I always forget about that, not used to this style. :-)
Unless things have changed since back then, it does indeed seem to be on a timer, check the dev's answer here: https://framacolibri.org/t/cant-automatically-follow-instances-of-the-public-index/8138
I wondered the same when I first followed the "official" index, and it started to follow isntances eventually.
AH! "You need to wait 24 hours after a peertube restart to see a peertube auto follow." And I just restarted it yesterday thinking a restart would force an auto follow job. :-D
Thank you SO MUCH! :-) I'll update later today then! EXCITING! :-D