And 99% of those people are just gonna click that X and stop going to the site that redirects them. If it's not a Lemmy instance they are getting to, then what would make them stick around?
The blame should be more on the sites like lemmyverse.net for not vetting the links they are advertising.
OP you are not crazy. I was just able to reproduce it with my phone! On the main homepage while i would rotate the screen back and forth it was changing my communities from sub to local and then all of a sudden it logged me out! Not only did it log me out, it took a good 5 tries or so to get logged back in!
I took video of it happening but stopped it before realizing i got logged out.
I'm using a Galaxy S10 with the .34 alpha release.
https://streamable.com/klcorf