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One feature Mastodon does better than virtually every other platform is the edit button. It's free, has unlimited edits, is not time limited, has edit history, edit notifications, real-time updates, and is generally just awesome. As someone who does a LOT of typos, and constantly forgets alt text etc, I am eternally grateful to the Mastodon Devs for such a flawless implementation.
@phocks painful as it might sound, unless I notice the typo straight away or the error really is very misleading, I leave it as it is
Fixing a typo on a post after people have liked or boosted it sends them all a notification. This is an annoyance, but a necessary one because the meaning may have changed
Personally if anything I've boosted gets edited more than 30 minutes after it was posted I just unboost it. I kinda wish that could be automated instead of me getting a notification
@chris_e_simpson @phocks was about to post the same. Would like an auto-unboost-on-edit feature, the edit notifications annoy me (but I also don't want to continue to support a statement if the meaning has changed)
@Techn1x @chris_e_simpson @phocks I've yet to see a single instance where an edit changed the meaning. Could you point to cases?
@hpk @Techn1x @chris_e_simpson @phocks Same here. I assume that the deterrent function of re-notifying edits to boosters and likers works.
@martinvermeer @hpk @chris_e_simpson @phocks yeah but the potential malicious threat is there if users outright disable the edit notifications _without_ an automatic disendorsement of the post (even if we haven't seen it)
I dislike receiving edit notifications, always tedious typos or links to soundclouds, but leave them enabled for that potential rare threat
@hpk @Techn1x @chris_e_simpson @phocks i don't have the link anymore but i definitely had it happen to me. someone had posted something like "blah blah blah, musk is rat, blah blah blah, if you own a tesla sell it or you are a nazi, blah blah blah."
i asked how selling it made the slightest difference to musk and, the alternative, destroying an otherwise perfectly good car, also made no sense.
the original poster deleted the "sell it" part which made my response no longer make any sense so then i had a whole bunch of people letting me know i was a nazi with no reading skills.
the poster never mentioned they edited the post - it was all done in bad faith as far as i was concerned. i removed my post and blocked the account, hence no link to it anymore.