The disk lookup for avatars with remote URLs causes a flicker. We can cache in memory as well to remove this flicker. We keep the disk cache as a fallback (e.g. for offline mode).
From the expo docs:
Memory cache may be purged very quickly to prevent high memory usage and the risk of out of memory exceptions.
It seems safe to cache in memory, and I feel like we've seen this flicker elsewhere (maybe encrypted images?), so I've changed the cache policy for all LoadableImages, but can narrow the scope to just Avatars if desired.