Discussions on vintage and retrocomputing
@ProdigalFrog I've seen this a few times lately, instead of linking to the YouTube video, which lets us immediately know it's from PhilsComputerLab in this case, people link to a page with a link to the YouTube video but there too with no mention of who the video is by, you have to click the link again.
Can I ask why? For readers, it's less information and more clicks to get to the content. Are you trying to generate traffic to your site? But it's not your content...
Ah, I see the issue now after looking at this post from your mastodon instance. I am not posting from Mastodon, but from a Lemmy instance (a federated Reddit-like platform using activitypub). The way Lemmy seems to federate link posts to mastodon users is by sharing the Lemmy post itself, which contains its own comment thread, not the YouTube link directly. That intermediate site you're seeing is the Lemmy instance I'm on, slrpnk.net.
@ProdigalFrog Ahhh, that explains it, yes. So slrpnk.net is your Lemmy instance. And the other posts I've seen that were similar were also from people posting on Lemmy. Makes sense.
It's unfortunate. It seems to me like the UX for the interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon could be improved.
I agree, though unfortunately, the developers of both Lemmy and Mastodon appear to have little interest in improving compatibility between the two platforms :(
This may be your client or instance, I don't see this on this post on lemmy.
same here, I see a direct youtube link
I too get annoyed with links that don't have some sort of breakdown. who it is, a bit of a summary, something. Much like yourself I tend to not click the link without it but I may do a search on the subject if it seems interesting enough. Put a little summary down and maybe I will click the link.
I haven't encountered what you're describing, unless you mean Invidious links? But I think those show the channel name as well, so I assume it's something else.
Do you still have access to the sort of link you're talking about?