Post #1736192

2026-04-27 14:59 UTC

Federation is interesting to me, even if I don't completely understand how certain aspects of it work. I just posted a thread with two posts in it, each of which has one YouTube link. The second post has a preview card, and the first one doesn't. On my account, anyway. On my other private account, and on my studio account (both on other instances), both posts have their title card and player widget.

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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-27 15:21

@ClarusPlusPlus I see it. Even when I view your post on your own instance (gamedev.lgbt), there is no preview. It's not a federation issue if it happens on the original instance. I'm guessing your instance tried to fetch the first linked page, failed, and that's why it couldn't generate a preview. But that's only a guess. You'll have to contact your admin if you want to know for sure what happened.

Open ##2110387
@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2026-04-27 17:14

@ClarusPlusPlus It's a matter of when the server caches it. If it's fast enough your client catches it right off. If not you won't see it unless you force it to check again (any actual interaction will do this.) It's there, you just won't see it on your client because your client. Simplest way to do that is just like your own post. You can unlike it right after. IMO this isn't necessarily a bad thing even if it is annoying because it means the client is less actively pinging the server all the time.

Open ##2110392