Thanks - I actually had the setting turned on already but triggering it off and back on again caused it to start working properly, for whatever reason. Indeed that is a helpful indicator:-).

This account (that you responded to) was created a mere few hours ago. It might even have been created purely to troll people, possibly by someone who has gotten used to being banned using a recognizable account name.

On PieFed I find it very helpful to see an icon next to people’s names indicating brand-new accounts. Some Lemmy apps can do that as well (I switched over to Voyager here to see if it would, but nope, at least not by default). Anyway I wanted to point out that it is a very useful feature, for exactly such scenarios as this!

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).

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. :-(

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

Tbf, I think a certain minimum amount of intelligence is required to even qualify for that statement, which I suspect disqualifies most… but yeah, underneath that, there do seem to be a few, like Jeff Bezos.

Though Donald Trump himself I see more like a monkey doing its thing, as much a symptom as a feed-forward cause of his own. I ain’t saying that he’s not “evil” in his own way, just that he lacks sufficient character for his brand of it to have had any effect at all, if it weren’t for the fact that the systems were so broken to begin with. Money (his father’s in his case) corrupts.

Bold of you to assume that most people even want that. From what I can tell…

Ah… remember when this stuff used to sound fake?

And yet a glance at how the Russian army is equipped…

Hrm, maybe when that happens, turn it back over again? After that, continue to follow the directions on the card.

That’s what “smart” people would do anyway - you are “smart”, aren’t you? 🧠

Oh no, he’s not falling for that again (and again and again and again and again)!

They’re not sending their best and brightest folks. And some I assume are good people, but…

It all comes to naught, in the end.:-P

Well you can’t just throw down something like that… and not provide the receipt!?

It’s not about “mad”, it’s about pushing boundaries. If they decide they want to…

*we*'re

I am not from the UK so it is not my place to say one way or another…

But many people who voted for it directly are saying exactly that, yes! They say “how dare you, what were you thinking, allowing us to make such an important choice as that!?”

That is what makes me think that democracy has lost. Even The People seem to no longer want it. It takes real effort to get stuff done, and if we don’t maintain our shit, then it falls apart.:-(

It almost sounds like they may not have thought this through fully…

Tell that to Hillary Clinton…

I am downvoting bc of the exceedingly clickbait title with absolutely zero follow-up details except for a link. This post is therefore “advertising” - like spam in my inbox alerting me to an “opportunity” (to save on car insurance or printer ink, ignoring whether or not I even have one of those devices, or whatever), it takes up all of our attention. Which at currently 37k subscribers to this community, measured at a one minute each, is collectively 617 hours, or 15.4 work week time periods, i.e. 3.9 months total.

The article itself might even be good, or it might not be but at this point I am indisposed to click the bait in order to find out. And my point above stands either way.

Possibly you mean well OP - I have had troubles posting articles myself, assuming that details would be auto-populated like I see elsewhere, but then it did not happen - I am just offering my unasked-for opinion, in case it helps.:-) Especially since others I see are likewise downvoting so I wanted to add an explanation at least from my own POV.