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…
It depends on what youtube is willing to provide. It seems more likely to provide a thumbnail if you use a youtu.be link than a youtube.com link.
Instances running Lemmy from 0.19.4 onwards (I think) provide the option of providing a separate thumbnail manually, which is useful, but your instance is on 0.19.3.
Okay so it seems like the only people getting thumbnails on [email protected] are from shitjustworks.
No dice on using my .ee account though, that didn’t seem to result in a thumbnail either. But in the app I’m using, when on my .ee account there’s a field to put in a thumbnail URL which is interesting
I tried again with a youtu.be link and unfortunately no dice, so it seems it might be an instance issue, I’m gonna go take a look at the videos comm and see if there’s anyone on .world who posted and got a thumbnail. I might also try again from my .ee account