Swyper

That would be great. I am not sure if it was RES doing it or it was a default reddit thing but I do remember images automatically expanding on there. Having it happen automatically on Lemmy would be great as long as the user is not on a slow or data-capped connection.

Currently on reddit if you attempt to link to a image directly outside of reddit and somebody clicks it, it’ll redirect them to a media viewer page that hides all the comments but provides a link to view them. As much as I hate that redirect, I don’t think it is a terrible idea for Lemmy to do as well because of the issue your friend had with the thumbnail that you wanted them to click.

Instance owners would block that kind of instance based on the activity of its users instead.

I found out about Lemmy a few years ago when I started looking more at the Fediverse, but I never really felt a need to create an account here as I could just browse around. It wasn’t until recently due to Reddit’s announced changes that I wanted to start interacting here more.

Apart from the inevitable performance issues at times and some weird UI issues I’ve found (lack of error messages when things silently fail, unable to navigate away from a page when something hasn’t been saved, no dedicated community settings page) I’m enjoying my time here.