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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 Cris_Color@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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If you go to !videos@lemmy.world 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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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are people on shitjustworks posting youtu.be links on !videos@lemmy.world that do have thumbnails, so whatever they're doing doesn't seem to have that problem

My .ee account has a field to put in a thumbnail URL, so other comments in this thread are kinda leading me to believe it may be a combination of instance version, and how the instance is configured

[–] hono4kami@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My Lemmy instance actually can't fetch YouTube thumbnail, so I actually have to put it manually lol.

See http://www.get-youtube-thumbnail.com/

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Thats a super helpful site, thank you! If nothing else now I can remake my post from my .ee account and add the thumbnail manually