Joshua ByrdJan 19, 2025
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.
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It still shocks me that some people are against editing posts. The scenarios they invent are so absurdly elaborate, and yet so many ought forums have allowed editing for decades and no major incident.
Jan 19, 2025 at 9:56amWeb
Show threadFiXatoJan 19, 2025
@Rhodium103 oh good grief... your mention of early forums made me remember this person who kept editing their posts in ways where people who were pointing out how wrong that person was, were made to look like the bad person instead... and then replying "I said no such thing!" and so on... we ended up having to screenshot and quote post just to defend ourselves before the overly lenient admin finally banned them.
It really showed how useful an edit history would've been.
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