That it displays in some views but not others though, reinforces (to me) that the problem is with the app, not the post. I'd gently suggest (to the person I originally replied to) that if something isn't displaying, the first thing to do is see what it looks like in a browser, and if that's okay, report the problem to the app author, not reply to the OP. We should all just be able to post stuff, without worrying about every feasible way that someone might want to view it.
I recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members
Communities with 30k members could really do with pruning the completely inactive ones. It's not like there's any commercial reasons to pretend that places are busier than they actually are.
I think that's the fault of whatever app / frontend you are using. On OP's instance (which is just rendering HTML), and on the community's instance (using lemmy-ui), this file plays. In both cases, it's a bog-standard MP4 inside a VIDEO tag with a video/mp4 type. If - for example - you're using Sync, then that app also can't play MP4s hosted by Mastodon either.
I think it's asking a lot - it's not unreasonable for libraries to convert the markdown format for embedded images into IMG SRC, but then the clients can't play them because they're not images. Ideally, I think, there should be different markdown for embedded videos and audio (but it doesn't look like there's anything official).
These clips play for me on PieFed, but only because after the markdown translation, they get regexed into the correct AUDIO tags.
Raised by Wolves
Beforeigners and The Lazarus Experiment (after HBO Nordic went to Sky Atlantic, I assumed that they weren't continuing with Beforeigners because they had TLE, but then the cancelled that too)
The full take is slightly over 2 minutes - it continues to track the woman get up and go to an ambulance whilst talking on the phone. It's possible that the transition happened in the second minute, but there's a limit on video length for imgur uploads. I guessed that it happened when the shot levels out, (at about the 40 second mark), because I imagine that there are restrictions on how close a drone can get to an actor.
"Late Night With The Devil" is technically from 2023, which I don't care about, I'm just using it to justify mentioning that Juliette Gariépy's performance in 'Red Rooms' is really impressive. It's a slow-burning, ambiguous film, but worth watching, especially if you've seen 'Strange Darling' recently, and are looking for another take on women and serial killers.
'white people twitter' has always been a stupid and weird name, and it turns out that if you take it literally, it's like this: posts by fuckwits from a cesspool.
If an 8-inch wang isn't doing the job for you, it's probably as much about technique as it is about size. (I watched this assuming it was a parody vid, but it's an April's Fool upload from the real channel).
In that thread, Gargron (the Mastodon dev) saying that they have groups on the back burner is a bit of an understatement (the code to support Lemmy-style communities has been sat languishing for ages).
I know all the cool kids hate on AI, but as someone out of the loop, that 'podcast' is really impressive. I guess it speaks to how a influential certain style of podcasting is (from the likes of NPR) that a machine can copy it the same as other humans do.
As for the embedded link, this works for me (and others on the same site as me), but it might not for others:
Ideally, I suppose. But maybe they boil them like my Gran used to boil veg - until there's barely any nutrition left in them. And then add artificial colours and preservatives and whatnot. It's like if you make bread at home, then it's reasonably healthy, but it's difficult to buy bread that isn't essentially junk food, because they'll do anything to make the rise process quicker (including throwing in a bunch of sugar).
Maybe they're regarded as 'ultra-processed'. Like a lot plant-based meals in supermarkets aren't actually any healthier than the thing they're replacing, because they've had the shit kicked out of them by the industrial process.
I think they're all pushing their luck with it, trying to get away with it until any actual legal repercussions happen. I first saw this a while ago with a French newspaper - apparently the majority of newspapers there do it.
Bowen Yang is genius casting for Vance: really captures how there's something going on with Vance, and I would be unlikely to judge him for whatever it is, but his party sure as hell would.
Interesting, thanks. I can see the video if I view via voyager here: https://m.lemmy.world/search/lemmy.world/c/crappydesign@sh.itjust.works
That it displays in some views but not others though, reinforces (to me) that the problem is with the app, not the post. I'd gently suggest (to the person I originally replied to) that if something isn't displaying, the first thing to do is see what it looks like in a browser, and if that's okay, report the problem to the app author, not reply to the OP. We should all just be able to post stuff, without worrying about every feasible way that someone might want to view it.