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What determines post thumbnails? (self.voyagerapp)

submitted 1 week ago by ApollosArrow to c/voyagerapp

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Sometimes I will post a link and no thumbnail seems to be pulled from the link. Is this a case by case basis or do I need to do something else?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If I'm not wrong, images, like in every social, come from the page itself and are scraped (or not?) from the og:image or og:twitter

If you share any link and open it on desktop and inspect the page you can see at the beginning the og:image which is the same you see in the posted link. Example:

The link I sent above has this image and if you share it you'll see that image

[–] ApollosArrow 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’ve used instagram links and kickstarter like this one.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulscircuit/pilet-opensource-modular-portable-mini-computer?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabHjcrS7V0rMt4arfAgb-p06cbqc4Xt2_MBsiIzrw9s0LflcpwsIcyXt0s_aem_xw_izsdlBpIrx-nhwR07sw

And someone gave this for me to use on a lemm.ee instance, but it wouldn’t load on a lemmy.world instance. https://files.catbox.moe/qtxxrk.mp4 when I tried using the same website elsewhere

I just want to get into doing more posts, but I am confused on how to get consistent visual images to load on timelines from articles, general website thumbnails, gifs and videos.