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@lauren Leela will make you pay for that.

@shuttersparks Naw, she'd have me put her photo on everything if she could.

@lauren I mean putting her behind a content warning. Tsk tsk tsk

@shuttersparks I don't use content warnings. She's not behind one here, nor at another site I just checked. So it's likely something on your end.

@lauren Scanning down I see your post of 14 minutes ago, Twitter tries to "bribe" has her photo behind a "Not available" indicator with the photo fuzzed out. So, actually it's a "Not Available" rather than a content warning. (They look the same) A glitch, apparently. If I click on it then a new window opens with the correct photo.

@shuttersparks There's a lot of strange stuff. I see that sometimes and the images eventually show up. Lots of sites are overloaded. I also see that some ways some users try to embed videos never show up here correctly, just a black player with controls that don't do anything. But YT videos mentioned by URL seem to usually play OK.

@lauren @shuttersparks I’ve had trouble getting my YouTube links to “embedify” in Mastodon posts. No clue what’s going wrong.

@matt @shuttersparks At least for my server I just place them inline, e.g.:

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

and they've automatically embedded in the post successfully (as far as I know, anyway).

@lauren @matt Hmm, I think it's not working as you intend. When I click on the URL link in the text it takes me not to a video but to the YouTube main index page. When I hover over the link, it shows a truncated URL .../watch?v= and nothing after the equals sign.

@shuttersparks @matt Of course. Because that's not a full YT URL, just an example of where to put the URL in a post. A full URL would have the video ID after the equal sign. If you put a full YT URL where I showed that example, it will embed properly. At least they do for me.

@lauren @matt Okay, I didn't realize it was supposed to be a dummy embed. Haha. You could have put a link to the Rick Astley video. ;-)

@lauren @matt I've just been putting links inline too and they work as links. But Mastodon doesn't go find a graphic to display (if there is one) like some platforms do. Diaspora doesn't either.

@shuttersparks @matt Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It depends on how the target page is set up. I don't like that indeterminacy, that's why I use a white box or (now) a photo of Leela so I *know* what will be there.

@lauren @matt Interesting. I've never seen Mastodon or Diaspora dig a graphic out of a blog post and display it like on Twitter.

@shuttersparks @lauren @matt - I am totally confused by the various ways to get an image to display on the various platforms.

@karlauerbach @shuttersparks @matt On here, if you want to take a chance on whatever image may be presented by a target page, you can just use the URL of the page. If you want to include a specific image (which will supersede any target page image from a link), use the attach function on the post. To embed a YT video, just reference the URL in the text of the post. It appears that referencing Twitter (and possibly Instagram) videos that way will result in a nonfunctional video player embed in many, most, or all cases.

@lauren @karlauerbach @matt Hmm. Here's a link to a blog post that has an image. https://shuttersparks.net/canned-food-is-fine/