I couldn’t figure out how to join and which server to join. I assumed it was like lemmy or Mastodon that you pick a server and that’s your home. It wasn’t obvious to me.

Yes, in lemmy connect.

Does Peertube allow direct linking? I haven’t tried it. I thought it was a youtube clone.

I had similar issues. Turns out I was using 70% ipa. Switching to 90% fixed it.