Ricky MondelloFor me, in Ivory, all shared YouTube links look like this. Anyone know what this is about / is anyone else experiencing this?
Casey Liss@rmondello I'm probably going to get the details wrong, but I _think_ the issue is that your particular instance is hosted in Germany, and the server is grabbing the preview on behalf of the client.
@caseyliss I think you’re exactly right! https://oisaur.com/@renchap/112966046092296223
Renaud Chaput (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Youtube recently made a change and stopped serving the video pages when Mastodon (or other software, AFAIK) is requesting it, probably using some fingerprinting. Mastodon builds a link preview based on the page that is served, hence what you are seeing (in German because your server is probably located in a datacenter in Germany, or Youtube thinks it should see german language). We tried to get in touch with people at Youtube, but no success so far.
@rmondello Something something stopped clock something something 😉
Mats Staugaard@caseyliss @rmondello And up to 51% of the Mastodon network is hosted in Germany at Hetzner which is why it's mostly German Youtube https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
Chancerubbage@rmondello @caseyliss @renchap
It also might deal from boosts increasing requests on an URL, it can almost be did like default at times.
Leon Cowle@caseyliss @rmondello I understood from others posting about this, that it’s because that’s how youtube or mastodon is creating previews for the youtube url shortener “youtu.be” links (when you click share on a video on YT it uses this url shortener domain). If people use the full YT url, this doesn’t happen.