Submitted 4 months ago by MechaGrima@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I’m mildly annoyed with clicking on a thumbnail only to be suddenly taken to a page I know/care nothing about.
This might be your client app, maybe…? On Jerboa, tapping a post takes me to the lemmy comments first. Opening the link is a second deliberate tap.
Definitely this. There is a whole community dedicated to the various great Lemmy apps on different platforms, including the web. Try a couple and see if there is one that meets your needs better.
!lemmyapps@lemmy.world
Cool, checking this out now. I would rather not have to install anything if I can help it, I miss when all you needed for the web was a web browser.
If you are using a lemmy app on your phone, switch to the list view so that the thumbnail becomes smaller and the title important parts appear easily interactable.
At least on my instance, the top right hand corner on all thumbnails has a little symbol that shows if it is a “link picture” or an “expandable picture.”
The link symbol looks like a box with an arrow, the picture symbol is the generic white outline hills and sun symbol it seems like many places use for images.
Doesn’t really answer your question directly, but it might help?
don’t click on the thumbnail. click on the title
If you are browsing on Android, you can install URLCheck app, and set it as your default browser. That will intercept all links, and allow you to inspect before launching it.
In the web UI external links have a box with an arrow, while images have a box with circles. Clickingg on the comment icon/count always takes you to the comments.
don’t click on the post title, but click on the little icon with number of comments… that will always take you to comment section, even when the mail link leads outside of lemmy.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 months ago
Don’t know of such a filter. But did you know that that is the primary function of Lemmy? It is a link aggregator first and foremost. Everything else stems from that.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Sure, but much like Reddit, the primary use case is just reading the article title and commenting based off of that. /s
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
No /s, we all know it’s true!
ChexMax@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hey, we look to the comments to see if someone else read it and summarized it first before commenting!
MechaGrima@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fair enough. My main reason for joining was to scroll through memes and engage with fan communities I’m part of. I used to have a reddit account a long time ago, but I left, and recently tried to make an account again, only to discover what a clusterf*** things have become, which sent me running here after weird stuff started happening with my new account.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 months ago
Reddit is also a link aggregator. In the case of memes it just links directly to the picture.
In your case I would just subscribe to the communities you like and ignore all the others.
Nemo@midwest.social 4 months ago
Like hell. It’s a ranked threaded discussion forum.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 months ago
From github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
marcos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The goal of a system is what it does. That’s true for communities too.
Lemmy isn’t much of a link aggregator. It’s more more a discussion platform. But it’s open for specializing some part of it, what is really great.