Ah, I see now, thanks. That makes more sense than my previous theory, that MBIN users were pathological liars or something. Also, now my previous comment makes me look like an idiot. Oh, well.

It's interesting what MBIN does - making the user click a button gives it an extra chance to query the remote site, so it can render it correctly. That's not the same as taking the markdown and rendering it as HTML, but the end result is nice.

Elsewhere (like on PieFed), Youtube embedding works well because the URL is in a nice dedicated field, so it's easy to process, rather than parse through the text of a comment to find it. No idea what's happening with Tesseract, but it's just a front-end for Lemmy (albeit a sophisticated one), so my guess is that your link would fail, but since the comments aren't there, it's a bit moot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Haha I think it is fully proper to ask every valid question like this - and in particular, like we see happen with PieFed all the time, and also Tesseract, someone could legitimately modify their particular instance in unusual ways that aren't committed to the common codebase yet (awaiting review, or potentially confusing, or cause trouble integrating with new upcoming features also trying to be committed?:-).

And I wasn't sure if my answer was appropriate or not - like if you saw it and knew already but you meant something totally different but then I completely missed, so thank you for your honesty bc it does make me feel better that I wasn't being a complete dolt here.

As for missing that feature... hehe I did as well, and this despite my first experiences with the Fediverse having been Kbin for MONTHS until it imploded:-(. It really does look very much like a broken image icon, and that's just a poor design decision on the part of Kbin's creator, imho. That said it's quite a useful feature, and I used it quite often - many times per day and even per hour. And still forgot all about it!?!?!:-P (it just looks that much like the broken image icon!!!! we don't even question it, OF COURSE that's what it is - what else could it possibly be‼️⁉️)

So yeah, thanks for your bravery (in like not merely deleting your prior comment, or you probably really could have brow-beat me into submission here with technical jargon) - it only makes me respect you more you know. As for others who choose to feel the opposite, that's on them:-D.