If you go to [email protected] and scroll you’ll see some of the posts have a youtube thumbnail image, but not all.

I wanna post YouTube videos, but no one seems to engage much without a thumbnail, which makes sense, but I’m not sure what would result in the post actually having a thumbnail

If anyone has advice or guidance I’d appreciate it :) Thanks!

EDIT: so far it seems like it’s potentially a combination of what version of lemmy the posters account is running, and how that instance is configured…

  • @[email protected]
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    122 months ago

    It’s because Lemmy can’t fetch YouTube thumbnails. I swear it used to fetch thumbnail and title automatically before, hmm

    • flamingos-cant
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      It’s because YouTube puts a bunch of JavaScript at the start of the file (1MiB) before the opengraph tags and Lemmy only fetches the first 512 KiB (a fix was merged a couple days ago).

      • @[email protected]
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        If you don’t put a whopping 1MB of JavaScript in your website, you’re doing web development wrong.

        /s

        • Enoril
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          22 months ago

          Don’t forget to add also the 2856 partners intrusive code lines and cookies to have a “better experience”

      • P03 Locke
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        12 months ago

        I can fetch the damn thumbnail just fine. I have to do it on every YT post I submit.

        Reddit can fetch thumbnails from hundreds of websites, all of them different, including a bunch of porn sites. Pretty sure they have to code each site to map out the right URL and tags to parse.

        I know Lemmy is OSS, but I really wish it wasn’t so slow on the uptake with these things.

    • @TehBamski
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      72 months ago

      I can testify to this. I was there. I was there when Lemmy so valiantly fetched ye old YouTube thumbnails.

    • CrisOP
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      12 months ago

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