diff --git a/Tusker/Screens/Explore/TrendingLinksViewController.swift b/Tusker/Screens/Explore/TrendingLinksViewController.swift
index 1ff4324f..578cc48b 100644
--- a/Tusker/Screens/Explore/TrendingLinksViewController.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Screens/Explore/TrendingLinksViewController.swift
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class TrendingLinksViewController: UIViewController, CollectionViewController {
         do {
             let request = Client.getTrendingLinks(offset: origSnapshot.itemIdentifiers.count)
             let (links, _) = try await mastodonController.run(request)
-            snapshot = origSnapshot
+            var snapshot = origSnapshot
             snapshot.appendItems(links.map { .link($0) }, toSection: .links)
             await dataSource.apply(snapshot)
         } catch {
@@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ extension TrendingLinksViewController {
                 hasher.combine(loading)
             }
         }
+        
+        var shouldSelect: Bool {
+            if case .link(_) = self {
+                return true
+            } else {
+                return false
+            }
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -248,6 +256,10 @@ extension TrendingLinksViewController: UICollectionViewDelegate {
         }
     }
     
+    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, shouldSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {
+        return dataSource.itemIdentifier(for: indexPath)?.shouldSelect ?? false
+    }
+    
     func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
         guard case .link(let card) = dataSource.itemIdentifier(for: indexPath),
               let url = URL(card.url) else {