Sometimes I will post a link and no thumbnail seems to be pulled from the link. Is this a case by case basis or do I need to do something else?
Sometimes I will post a link and no thumbnail seems to be pulled from the link. Is this a case by case basis or do I need to do something else?
If I’m not wrong, images, like in every social, come from the page itself and are scraped (or not?) from the og:image or og:twitter
If you share any link and open it on desktop and inspect the page you can see at the beginning the og:image which is the same you see in the posted link. Example:
<meta property=“og:image” content=“https://ogp.me/logo.png”>
The link I sent above has this image and if you share it you’ll see that image
I’ve used instagram links and kickstarter like this one.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulscircuit/pilet-opensource-modular-portable-mini-computer
And someone gave this for me to use on a lemm.ee instance, but it wouldn’t load on a lemmy.world instance. https://files.catbox.moe/qtxxrk.mp4 when I tried using the same website elsewhere
I just want to get into doing more posts, but I am confused on how to get consistent visual images to load on timelines from articles, general website thumbnails, gifs and videos.