I am thinking - hoping - that it’s an unplanned side effect of a change, but that raising the issue like this will likely get it fixed before most people even have to deal with it.:-)

Stuff happens. What’s important is how we deal with it from here, imho.

I’m pretty sure that’s bc you are on Lemmy.World, which is still running older Lemmy software 0.19.3.

I made a separate post describing this issue. The TLDR for you is that it won’t affect you until Lemmy.World upgrades to the modern software version.

After Lemmy.World, the #2 instance on the Fediverse (in terms of users) is Lemmynsfw.com, which is likewise running old software (probably awaiting the new admins asked for). And the #3 is lemm.ee, which does demonstrate this problem.

So even if it does not affect you, yet, it does a lot of other people right now, and will eventually affect everyone using the Lemmy web UI (I don’t know if or which apps might be affected).

In that case, it would have been better if OP had offered the type of functionality that they wanted (e.g. cross-platform support, better responsiveness to tablet screens, etc.) to Voyager, as in like make a fork of Voyager and add in the new desired features. Elsewhere in this thread OP acknowledges that this would have been preferable… yet they are going to do their own thing regardless. Which isn’t nothing imho, even if something else might have been more ideal.

Hrm, me either. Both desktop Firefox and Chrome leave a GINORMOUS gap (>1 full page height for me) but don’t show the video. The only Extension I have in that Firefox is uBlock Origin, and Chrome has none.

Safari not only auto-plays the video, but after I paused it and scrolled down it started to auto-play again, though pausing it the second time worked so it may have been some oddness in something not being finished downloading (yet it still started up the video regardless!).

Can these kinds of “ads” be pointed to as evidence that Lemmy no longer restricts advertising - i.e., it’s main selling point? Netflix likewise does “not” have “ads” either - those videos that auto-play after you watch something, and when you pause something, and when you don’t select something fast enough, and when you leave the player connected for too long, etc. - those, again, are “not” ads, just so you know. You know, um… in the sense that “well ackshually” they aren’t (except, in fact, they are).

Edit: I also see the giant gap from https://startrek.website/post/16820546 too, but NOT from the OP Lemmy.World post. It looks like this may be related? I’m glad that video embeds are working again but… when they auto-play like that, WITH SOUND, that seems to cross a line for me. :-(

It sounds really nice. Something to decide early on is whether to make it open source. Many people who use Lemmy specifically (more so than Reddit I am saying) will only use an app that is open source.

Holy fuck, I click the plus sign to learn a little bit more about this topic, and my browser-based Lemmy web UI autoplays a video with sound. This is the first time I’ve noticed such a thing on Lemmy and worries me: will we need plugins/extensions to stop such things? Why isn’t the sound muted by default?

Probably I could block the community for now, but I’m talking more about this new trend that I have not noticed before on Lemmy.

Can anyone recommend an extension to auto-mute these videos? I use Firefox on Android, with Blokada 5 app, and the extensions uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger. I am not certain of the video type - OP has not inserted it, so it seems to be pulled automatically from the source, as: https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3368993_hls/master.m3u8.

If it helps, this seems strictly a Lemmy issue: none of PieFed or Mbin or Tesseract do this autoplay:

• https://piefed.social/post/347874
• https://fedia.io/m/world@lemmy.world/t/1486794/Israel-and-Hezbollah-both-claiming-ceasefire-violations-on-Day-2 (Lemmy messes up this link, so I’ll try this?)
• https://dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/2313204