Ricky MondelloAug 15, 2024
For me, in Ivory, all shared YouTube links look like this. Anyone know what this is about / is anyone else experiencing this?
Show threadJason Garber

@rmondello The short URL youtu-dot-be doesn’t provide OpenGraph data, so… no previews.

☝🏻 This little detail came across my feed recently and now I can’t find it to credit the original author. 🙃

The advice from that post was to avoid using YouTube’s share/embed UI and instead copy the video page’s URL from your browser’s address bar.

…and, a relevant reply that Ricky’s boosted:

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.

Oisaur
Aug 15, 2024 at 12:35pmWeb
Show threadNiléaneAug 15, 2024
@jgarber @rmondello @renchap FWIW in my testing, sharing youtube[dot]com urls instead of youtu[dot]be didn't make a difference.