I’m mildly annoyed with clicking on a thumbnail only to be suddenly taken to a page I know/care nothing about.
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.
Sure, but much like Reddit, the primary use case is just reading the article title and commenting based off of that. /s
No /s, we all know it’s true!
When it comes to news, I already know that very few possible events would have facts that were notable enough to change how I feel overall about the topic/event.
But, since I intentionally consume way less news than I used to, other than some Jon or John clips, I read my news.
Any fact finding I end up doing it just a hodgepodge of finding what I can through search, relying on primary sources where possible obviously.
So, when it comes to news, reddit was, and Lemmy is the place I go to be aware of events that I’d see if I watched legacy media / social media. And to just vent and maybe learn something.
I’m a title only kind of gal these days. Anything more, and I’d end up as a headline myself in short time.
Hey, we look to the comments to see if someone else read it and summarized it first before commenting!
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.
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.
Welcome to the fediverse!
Definitely search for the communities you are interested in and click subscribe. There may be several similar communities on different Lemmy instances with different rules or vibes. Also, if the subscribe button says subscribe pending, you can ignore that.
Lemmy is amazing to be a “knight of new” as it were because the cross-talk, noise, bots, etc are just not there like they are in reddit. I’ve found communities I never would have known about.
Keep in mind Lemmy is very actively developed. If you do end up staying with Lemmy consider tossing a few dollars to the devs. I’ve always found the devs courteous and approachable when I’ve encountered a bug.
There may be several similar communities on different Lemmy instances
and lemmy explorer is great tool to find them
Like hell. It’s a ranked threaded discussion forum.
A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse.
It is what we make of it, and I need it to be the latter rather than the former.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
don’t click on the thumbnail. click on the title
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 main link leads outside of lemmy.
In the web UI, external links have a box with an arrow, while images have a box with circles (top right of the thumbnail, grey). Clicking on the comment icon/count always takes you to the comments.
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.
