Given that the fediverse is very likely to have an enormous influx of users straining the infrastructure, automatically expanding images beyond the thumbnail would compound all the instances, so I don't think that I would recommend making that available yet, or at least until some more maturity has been developed into the platform and architecture. I love the idea, and I also find it annoying to have to manually open each of them, but maybe a bit of a slowdown on the doomscrolling is a good thing.
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it runs javascript when you click on it to make it larger so you could run that javascript manually
I would recommend jerboa for mobile EDIT: it doesn't have this feature but it is better than the web browser
I think Jerboa just stretches the thumbnail into a card-type view. So that likely doesn't impose any extra load on the serving instance. Sadly, it doesn't animate GIFs, though, even once you click into a post.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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