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why do some YouTube videos on lemmy have a thumbnail, while some don't? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] Skiluros 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Instances running 0.19.5 (I think) allow manually adding a thumbnail.

I extract them from https://youtube-thumbnail-grabber.com/ and manually add them in.

Really annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or shift+right click on the unplayed video and copy image link to get the thumbnail.

I've been doing it manually because otherwise nobody watches it.

[–] Skiluros 1 points 2 days ago

Will need to try this. Grabbing the thumbnail via an external site is annoying.