You don’t need “deals” with YouTube etc. for videos. You just…do it. YouTube supports embedding natively. Imgur I’m pretty sure can be directly linked. Not sure about the others.
I explained it in another comment. This was a simplification that’s true for i.redd.it and v.redd.it (which block embeds with CORS), the native web UI doesn’t do iframe embeds for privacy reasons.
Also, the default (and the most frequent) way people get an image URL out of Imgur is the album URL even for single images. You’d need to contact Imgur to query the number of images and their URLs to enable the kind of embeds you’re looking for. AFAIK, Reddit does that but it probably costs them money for an API key.
RES was around long before new Reddit and it does what it does based on what classic Reddit has in it, and what it gets itself. I don’t know much more detail than that, except that the devs basically lost interest in doing more than maintenance of it after the redesign came out.
should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?
That’s one way to look at it. I would pose it as
should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time providing the best user experience to the users who are on their platforms?
Imgur stands for image URL: they would let you upload images and provide you with a direct URL. The enshittification with all that JS and push for on-site social networking came after New Reddit and i.redd.it.
You don’t need “deals” with YouTube etc. for videos. You just…do it. YouTube supports embedding natively. Imgur I’m pretty sure can be directly linked. Not sure about the others.
I explained it in another comment. This was a simplification that’s true for i.redd.it and v.redd.it (which block embeds with CORS), the native web UI doesn’t do iframe embeds for privacy reasons.
Also, the default (and the most frequent) way people get an image URL out of Imgur is the album URL even for single images. You’d need to contact Imgur to query the number of images and their URLs to enable the kind of embeds you’re looking for. AFAIK, Reddit does that but it probably costs them money for an API key.
I’m sure RES doesn’t have a sweetheart deal with Imgur. It must be possible without their agreement.
I think New Reddit provides the Imgur URL and RES uses it to generate a preview in Old Reddit.
Anyway, should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?
RES was around long before new Reddit and it does what it does based on what classic Reddit has in it, and what it gets itself. I don’t know much more detail than that, except that the devs basically lost interest in doing more than maintenance of it after the redesign came out.
That’s one way to look at it. I would pose it as
Imgur stands for image URL: they would let you upload images and provide you with a direct URL. The enshittification with all that JS and push for on-site social networking came after New Reddit and i.redd.it.
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