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  • Hey, very cool app. One thing that could be a massive improvement is the ability to tap the thumbnails in “compact mode” to open a bigger version of the image without loading the whole post. Boost (for reddit and for lemmy) has something like this (though not as snappy as I’d like), and relay for reddit had the perfect implementation of this. It was quick and easy. You tap the thumbnail to blow the image up to the max screen width, tap again to dismiss the image. Ideally there would be no lag between when you tap and when the image is loaded, same with dismissing. (I disabled double tap in relay so the image dismissal didn’t wait for a 2nd tap, making it quicker.)

    Obviously this is a very nice and niche feature, so it might be outside the scope of the app. But if you find yourself itching to add some features, keep this in mind :) It would fit well with the “fast, fluid browsing” theme of the app.

    I took a video to give a quick example but uploading it to lemmy.world isn’t working, I don’t want to share my youtube account, and I don’t want to make you download a random file from a file sharing site, so you can check out this behavior in those 2 apps if you need an example.














  • That’s a good point. Though I’d say at least part of that was nationalism. I think today’s racists are a bit more desensitized to Olympic diversity since it has been the norm for so long (which it hadn’t back then). The people I know that think like this understand that some people are better at some things and that naturally breeds diversity, but they’ll use that as an excuse. For example they let it reinforce an “all brawn no brains” stereotype of certain ethnicities. Whereas I think Hitler wanted to believe or push the idea of complete superiority in all aspects of one race.

    But it’s not just that one example, they will find any amount of reasons and excuses to accept the current reality while also accepting their anti-diverse beliefs. And they’ll believe there is no contradiction. At least, a lot of them will.


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    21 days ago

    I understand that the Olympics is very diverse and that’s fantastic. But for people who think diversity isn’t our strength, would watching the Olympics really challenge that idea for them? In other words, would they actually think that the Olympics being diverse makes the Olympics “stronger”?

    I think this tweet is missing the fact that these people would prefer the Olympics if it wasn’t diverse, and it would be better in their eyes if it wasn’t. In their eyes, its strength doesn’t come from diversity.

    I can see someone making some dumbass argument like “oh yeah if diversity is our strength why are all the runners black?” or something like that. Racists aren’t squirming in their seats while watching the Olympics like this tweet suggests, even if I wish they were.