Posting YouTube links is currently broken on all instances of Mastodon: Both the title and the thumbnail are not displayed. Fortunately, this only affects the shorter “youtu.be/…” link.
The longer version “www.youtube.com/watch?v=…” works fine and shows the preview image and fetches the title.
#PSA #YouTube #Mastodon
Bernd Kilga /
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2024-09-20 14:02:22
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2024-09-20 14:02:22Event JSON
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