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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).
@shuttersparks @lauren I've had trouble getting this to work. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
See here: https://mastodon.matthauger.com/@matt/109429693502118522
@shuttersparks @matt I'm really not into those games.
@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.
@shuttersparks @matt Yeah, it does. Sometimes. It even did it with that example YT URL, since I didn't provide a superseding image with that one.
@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/
@lauren @karlauerbach @matt What I see displayed is a frame with the title of the blog post and a tiny image. I'm just used to the image displayed larger on other platforms.
@lauren @karlauerbach @matt Hmm, I guess I'm not entirely correct. If I open the post I see the graphic at a good size. Only in the timeline is it really tiny. Good to know.
@lauren @shuttersparks I would love it if the editing pane gave me a live preview of whether / how the embed card would display.
@matt @shuttersparks Twitter didn't either. They don't actually fetch until the post is made. And then each instance goes out and retrieves it on their own, unless there is some other superseding image.
@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.