If you're writing website links on Mastodon either in posts or on profiles, remember to include https:// at the beginning.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

If you're writing website links on Mastodon either in posts or on profiles, remember to include https:// at the beginning. This makes the link clickable for people reading your post or profile.

(Also, if you're a techy person, you might like to know that many less common kinds of link can also be made clickable on Mastodon including gemini://, dat://, dweb://, gopher://, ipfs:// and ssb:// )

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[karalg84@dragonscave.space]

@FediTips Do you know what the trick is for getting YouTube link previews to display? Sometimes they do but most of the time links I post just show the homepage or something.

[anti42@sueden.social]

@KaraLG84 @FediTips
You have to use the full link out of the url bar of your browser, not the short link you get by Youtube if you klick on "share".

the link has to look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ...

[karalg84@dragonscave.space]

@anti42 @FediTips That's the link format I use.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@KaraLG84 @anti42

At first I thought it was the link format and did a post about this a while ago, but apparently it's also affected by which hosting company your server uses.

As far as I know there seems to be some inconsistency over how YouTube/Google treats communication with different hosting companies?