If you go to !videos@lemmy.world and scroll you’ll see some of the posts have a youtube thumbnail image, but not all.

I wanna post YouTube videos, but no one seems to engage much without a thumbnail, which makes sense, but I’m not sure what would result in the post actually having a thumbnail

If anyone has advice or guidance I’d appreciate it :) Thanks!

EDIT: so far it seems like it’s potentially a combination of what version of lemmy the posters account is running, and how that instance is configured…

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Or shift+right click on the unplayed video and copy image link to get the thumbnail.

    I’ve been doing it manually because otherwise nobody watches it.