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CoffeeGeek

Are youtube links no longer working on Mastodon as cards?

The last couple I've posted are just a generic youtube small card that just opens a new blank browser window, and stalls.

I wonder if Goog is blocking card delivery to mastodon because of the mastoddos attacks whenever cards are called by the fediverse.

Just another reason for the powers that be in the fediverse structure to get their shite together, re cards and urls. ;)

My own website goes down for about 2-4 minutes after I post any URL from CoffeeGeek.

@coffeegeek
A recent youtube video in my feed shows the usual card and other stuff.

I'm pretty sure Youtube would not be fazed by the traffic bump of a mastodon post against the backdrop of their usual traffic.

@coffeegeek I think it's not that they just don't like the idea of distributed networks. They probably allow it on big instances like .social, but not small ones. Or even medium-sized ones.

@coffeegeek I was having trouble with cards for YouTube links on Bluesky the other day, so I suspect they're having issues with that in general. At least Bluesky gives me a preview when I write the post, so I can fiddle with the link to make it retry. With Mastodon, I wish I had something to force a refresh