I cannot put into words how profoundly stupid this “feature” is. AOL and Geocities pages were genuinely more user friendly. Whoever added it, refreshed the page and said “yeah, this works well” and left it in should be fired! …out of a cannon and into the Sun!
I believe it’s not something you can avoid at the moment. I thought I read something about this being fixed in the next update for the web app, but I don’t know where I saw it.
It’s being fixed in the next lemmy update (not just the app), which I heard should be coming next week.