Yeah, I really appreciate the fact that it's an action that can't be done accidentally in most cases.

On your Lemmy account settings when logged into your home instance from the web, do you have "Show Read Posts" unchecked? That will insure any posts you've marked are read from any client won't get sent to you again when you refresh your feed later. This is a double edge sword as it can make finding read posts harder when uncheck. Some clients may do some filtering on the client side, but also enabling this server side make hiding read posts a lot more consistent between browser and other clients from the same account.

I'm having the same problrm. This was the main way I scrolled reddit. Open up r/all or my subscriptions and hide a post if read or not interested.

Just worked on your post.

I've been getting this, but if I press Hide all Read posts then it'll go away again.

You can literally link directly to it.

Settings shortcut: Comment options > Volume key navigation

ten years of sync and I never noticed that, thanks!

I think that for "parent" it means the comment you are clicking, eg.:

|-- comment A

|---- subcomment B

if you have that enabled and you click on A, both A and B are collapsed

if you have that disabled and you click on A, only B is collapsed