J.M.Hart
John SamuelOne feature I like about #Mastodon: whenever someone modifies a toot that I had boosted, Mastodon notifies me of this modification.
This simple feature has great potential for tackling disinformation that may arise from possible toot modifications.
Tim Chambers@jsamwrites 💯 agree....
[old] stefan 🙌@jsamwrites that's awesome I didn't know that!
Stephen Knight@jsamwrites Umm ... how do you "modify" a "toot"? (Toot is a stupid term, BTW, it needs to be destroyed/replaced.)
Dan Bencsik@jsamwrites how do you boost a toot?
Hans-Cees@jsamwrites that's not true
Kevin Menzel@jsamwrites This is one of the things that feels like such a good benefit of edit functionality when implemented well (like this)
Maxi 12x 💉@jsamwrites It will be the same with Twitter’s edit button, which is just available on Twitter Blue…
H. Mantegazzi@jsamwrites I would love if they also added an easy way to see what changed.
Dam@jsamwrites
One place where I've seen an immediate benefit was when a viral piece of artwork was going around uncredited. Thanks to the edit feature the post got the artist's handle added and everyone got the update.
One place where I've seen an immediate benefit was when a viral piece of artwork was going around uncredited. Thanks to the edit feature the post got the artist's handle added and everyone got the update.
Matt Wilcox@jsamwrites What I can not see or find is how you can see the original version, to check what was said before vs now.
pieceofthepie 
@mattwilcox @jsamwrites an edited post has a small down arrow on the status line just under the text. You can click that to view any previous edit.
@pieceofthepie I'm not seeing that interface. I only see a star next to edited posts?
@mattwilcox @jsamwrites You have to go into the post proper.
So this appears:
@pieceofthepie Found it! Thanks, that's useful. I'd rather see that in the main timeline feed though than have to click into a detail view. Nice. @jsamwrites
Adam Fields@jsamwrites Only tangentially related, I'm also pretty excited about getting notification that polls I voted in closed.
Leya {Now @chaos.social}@jsamwrites I agree that this is actually a very good and important idea. Around a year ago I was actually thinking about open-sourcing a script that could automatically make posts to social media (possibly distributed around multiple accounts), wait until the post gained a certain amount of likes/retweets/exposure however it would be measured on the corresponding platform and after that automatically mass edit the posts to actually say something entirely different to show the...
@jsamwrites ...implications and how this easily could be used to shape and manipulate or at least give a false impression about public opinion. Unfortunately never got around coding this though. Thank my university degree and job for that I guess. To be fair though a lot of sites have an edit history for exactly this purpose I guess. But you'd actually have to click on it and read it though so I guess the notifications are a better solution.
John LuskHopefully the same is true for toots you've replied to?
nonizur ❄️@jsamwrites Can you modify them? I thought you can only delete and redraft, which would get rid of all likes and comments.
@nonizur It's possible to modify your toots on certain Mastodon instances. With the release of Mastodon 4.0, more instances may activate this feature.
@jsamwrites Oh good, I really want to be able to edit! 
norskimposter@jsamwrites now that is cool
Simon Campbell@jsamwrites Cool feature for sure!
Dusty 
@jsamwrites Are you a fan of the work Christopher Bouzy has done to tackle misinformation?
The Modesto Kid@jsamwrites it makes me feel uneasy about correcting a typo in a post that has been boosted
@themodestokid But sometimes, it helps when the information needs to be updated.