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why do some YouTube videos on lemmy have a thumbnail, while some don't? (self.fediverse)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Cris_Color to c/fediverse
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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...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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.