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An intriguing idea. It would include a link for attribution ofc. I am not certain bc it would depend on what people mean when they say that they want it "embedded".

Right now I click once on the preview and it opens it in Loops. Or if I see there are comments I click that, then a second click opens it in Loops. None of which is hard? It does get annoying when going to the post to see the comments makes the browser forget where I was at on the Community page and I have to change the specified sort from the default of Hot to New again - so if I remember then I'll open the comments in a new tab, but that's again a barrier to contend with. But a bot showing the video wouldn't remove THAT barrier, only the one going forward to the actual Loops page, which is already not much of a barrier (I think?).

So are people wanting to see these videos in like Tile mode, so they can watch one after the other, without having to leave the sorted Community menu? In that case, I suppose they/we could get a Loops app, which should be easier now that there's an Android version (though waiting for a new account to be approved may still have a delay, perhaps? iirc I saw comments to that effect in dansup's Android app announcement on Mastodon). If this is the case, then the only thing that would help with that will be a full integration into the front-end code of Lemmy. If you were interested in that, two suggestions to start with could be taking a look at how PieFed does its YouTube embedding - it seems similar? Also Admiral Patrick has done that in Tesseract (as e.g. implemented in dubvee.org) as well. Ofc that's a different style of programming and you may not be interested, so no judgement if not, just sharing thoughts here.

But if THAT is what people are wanting, then will a bot putting it into the comments be sufficient? If it took you 2 months to make the bot, and then in 2 more months the front-end embed came out, would you feel that you had wasted your time? But maybe it's rather the work of 1 day?

Sorry, I wish I were or more help here, but hopefully laying these thoughts out like this could be of some use? Perhaps if you want it but aren't suitable with the coding language you could write a post asking someone to do the embedding for you - people may have thought about doing so already, but asking them may help them see a higher prioritization in that?