speculating here, but the “auto-generated ones” are probably just the ones in the opengraph tags, which is supposed to be what the website intended as the thumbnail. It’s more likely that these websites’ operators don’t have a clue that opengraph is being used, but since they’re the “proper” way to do embeds, lemmy can’t just ignore them, either.
speculating here, but the “auto-generated ones” are probably just the ones in the opengraph tags, which is supposed to be what the website intended as the thumbnail. It’s more likely that these websites’ operators don’t have a clue that opengraph is being used, but since they’re the “proper” way to do embeds, lemmy can’t just ignore them, either.