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…
Instances running 0.19.5 (I think) allow manually adding a thumbnail.
I extract them from https://youtube-thumbnail-grabber.com/ and manually add them in.
Really annoying.
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.