Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...
Yeah unfortunately Lemmy is really bad with YouTube links. It refuses to grab the title for the suggested title feature. (Though IIRC Piefed also fails on this.) It doesn’t pull any relevant information for the automatic description/summary feature displayed below the post. (Another problem Piefed shares.) And it doesn’t generate a thumbnail. Ever.
On Lemmy, unlike Piefed, you can specify a specific URL as the thumbnail for any post on the submission page. This gives you a way to fix the problem when Lemmy fails to automatically generate a good thumbnail. And unfortunately, when Piefed does a better job at generating thumbnails for its users, it doesn’t federate those over for Lemmy users to see.
Having said that, I’m really fucking annoyed that Lemmy hasn’t fixed this issue yet. Meanwhile, Reddit supports 500 thousand different kinds of thumbnail formats, and Lemmy can’t be bothered to support one of the most popular video platform.
Yeah unfortunately Lemmy is really bad with YouTube links. It refuses to grab the title for the suggested title feature. (Though IIRC Piefed also fails on this.) It doesn’t pull any relevant information for the automatic description/summary feature displayed below the post. (Another problem Piefed shares.) And it doesn’t generate a thumbnail. Ever.
On Lemmy, unlike Piefed, you can specify a specific URL as the thumbnail for any post on the submission page. This gives you a way to fix the problem when Lemmy fails to automatically generate a good thumbnail. And unfortunately, when Piefed does a better job at generating thumbnails for its users, it doesn’t federate those over for Lemmy users to see.
I’m always have this URL format bookmarked for when I’m posting YT links on Lemmy:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KtQ9nt2ZeGM/maxresdefault.jpg
Just swap out the ID with the one you’re using.
Having said that, I’m really fucking annoyed that Lemmy hasn’t fixed this issue yet. Meanwhile, Reddit supports 500 thousand different kinds of thumbnail formats, and Lemmy can’t be bothered to support one of the most popular video platform.