NebLem

Cool stuff, thanks for finding and sharing!

Looks like its showing in the DDG results for me this evening.

https://fedi-search.com/ which just adds the site parameters for different popular instances for the major search engines is probably the closest we have.

Marginalia.nu at least indexes the small web, but to my knowledge doesn’t really index the fedi yet.

Do they accept federated ActivityPub or IndieWeb mentions?

The web instances work pretty well, that’s a shame the iOS app didn’t work for you. I’m only a consumer not a producer of video content so I interact with a fedi microblogging platform instead of having an account on a peertube platform itself. The Android app seemed okay but following users with RSS and interacting via my microblogging account, as well as directly checking my favorite platforms’ sites occasionally for serendipity seems to work the best for me.

I’m sure with the fundraising blitz the apps will get better too this year.

https://theindiebeat.fm/ - in many ways a successor to RadioFreeFedi that plays a variety of channels of Fedi indie artists. Plays opted in artists hosted on Bandwagon.

http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service - sometimes listen when I want a news fix

http://live.lora924.de:8000/lora-hq.mp3 - public radio in München, trying to learn more German and its a decent mix of talk and music.

Meanwhile https://joinloops.org/ and https://joinpeertube.org/ keep getting better and better

Hopefully more creators will take notice and at least crosspost their content on better platforms too.

Outside getting people to join a fedi platform, Matrix instance, or Signal, all a non-trivial ask, you could see if they’re on Discord or WhatsApp already, which while neither is great at least its a step away. You could do a simple SMS group, if you are okay with the privacy risks - almost everyone still had a phone number.

Post mail surprisingly is still a thing too if you are okay with delayed messages and there being cost.

You can get the RSS feed and check it in a feed reader, for example for Sh.itjust.works you can use the feed https://sh.itjust.works/feeds/local.xml?sort=Active .

I’m not aware of any Lemmy app having such a feature though.