• P03 Locke
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    33 months ago

    Somewhat unrelated, what the fuck is up with Lemmy not auto-loading YouTube thumbnails on new posts? I have to fetch the thumbnail PNG image each time, and not everybody knows how to do that. This is not a problem with any other link type.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      23 months ago

      Lemmy has had a weird relationship with YouTube for a long time. For a while, it was doing the auto-description in various languages that seemed to change over time. I’m sure it’s entirely on YouTube’s end.

      • P03 Locke
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        23 months ago

        It’s not. I can easily pull the thumbnail image of any YouTube video. Same with yt-dlp.

        For some reason, Lemmy can’t figure out this simple template: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/hq720.jpg