Hey y'all,
I have a problem: sometimes I find a cool video on Youtube and I want to post it in a community I moderate. So I create a post, put the Youtube link in the URL field, and several options get added to the form:
- Copy suggested title:
- archive.org archive link
- ghostarchive.org archive link
- archive.today archive link
I click on the first one to copy the title, no problem. And usually that's it: I post, the post's preview shows a snapshot from the video and clicking on it sends me to the Youtube video. Great!
Now here's my problem: I would prefer not to link to Youtube directly So I tried replacing the direct link with any of the 3 proposed links, and it doesn't go all that well:
- The archive.org link seemingly never works
- The ghostarchive.org link works but no preview image is generated, which makes the post a bit boring
- The archive.today link redirects to a archive.ph link which is account-walled
Does anybody know how to create a post with a preview image that links to a Youtube video archived someplace else?
And yes, I'm aware that I could also report the video on my PeerTube. The problem is, SDF only has limited resources and I'd rather not upload huge videos there. They don't need the burden.
Don't worry about it, the frontends usually take care of using alternate sources if you want to:
I'm aware of this. My own browser is setup to redirect Youtube links to FreeTube. But that doesn't address the reasons why I would prefer not linking to Youtube: