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Michael Porter Aug 9, 2024

(Since this is getting traction, a slight edit to add a reminder that we're using many different devices, platforms, and apps - This is my experience and YMMV, but you're a smart person, you can figure it out 👍🏻)

Hey Tooters - If you are linking to YouTube videos, don’t use the “Share” function in YouTube to generate the link. Copy and paste the URL from your address bar.

Using the “Share” function generates a generic preview in Mastodon, whereas cutting and pasting the actual URL gives a nice preview for the video, including the title.

The preview for my image below might be cropped in your browser, click to see the comparison.

#Communication #Mastodon #YouTube

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Nine Oh Real Aug 9, 2024

@MichaelPorter
And simply copying the URL omits the source identifier part of the link that YouTube added some time ago.
(everything behind the "&si=")

Why you should delete that?

1. You post that link on social media, Google crowler finds it, checks the data base and now it knows this account on other social media belongs to you.
2. I click on your link and now Google knows our accounts are connected.

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Michael Porter

@mythlfrythtyg Thank you, excellent point. Also a good idea to examine the end of a regular URL for all the stuff added on - There’s often stuff there that is only helping the marketers.