Yeah makes sense for YouTube, Rif used to do it but tbh it was of questionable value as the player was very barebones. YouTube at least opens quickly in its own app.
I guess there’s not actually that many direct video links posted on Lemmy, I found one that did work, that player works nicely! Is the detection based on extension or content-type or something?
Maybe the feature request is actually to extract inline video from well known hosts like Imgur? E.g. https://lemm.ee/post/587389
The other obvious one is redgifs, I’m sure you can find an example of that yourself though 👀
👍 yeah from DNS logs it didn’t look like requests were actually going to world, good to know it’s just visual!