Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.social
Jul 3, 2026, 8:49 AMIn 2026, you cannot freely edit your own posts on neither Bluesky, Threads, or X.
But you can on Mastodon.
Spread the word! ♥️🐘
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Marijke Luttekesmahryekuh@hachyderm.ioJul 3, 2026, 8:51 AM@randahl I love that Mastodon also reports when someone edited a post you liked, in case you do not agree with the new version.
- Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 8:53 AM
@mahryekuh it is just so unbelievably awesome. 🤗
Jul 3, 2026, 9:09 AM@mahryekuh @randahl
I just wish it would show the changes in red or something. That would make it much easier to see if the change was just a spelling mistake or they changed the meaning of the post.(But of course everything can't be priority one, even if my former boss thought so).
- Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 9:16 AM
@leeloo what a great feature idea. I would like that.
Havoc BSc MSc 💚Havoc_online@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 10:23 AM@randahl @leeloo @mahryekuh it does, if you look at the edit history
ArgieSemAntiKast@openbiblio.socialJul 3, 2026, 10:46 AM@Havoc_online Where is that, I don't find that?
Jul 3, 2026, 11:10 AMIf you open an edited post, it should say "last edited" somewhere on the bottom, that is clickable.
- ArgieSemAntiKast@openbiblio.socialJul 3, 2026, 11:15 AM
@gbargoud @Havoc_online Ah. Found it but it looks very different for me -- not in a way that I could comfortably compare versions. Just a list of dates when it was edited, and I can only ever open one version.
- Jul 3, 2026, 11:17 AM
Yeah the default web UI doesn't do the best job with that part.
- Marijke Luttekesmahryekuh@hachyderm.ioJul 3, 2026, 10:48 AM
@Havoc_online @randahl @leeloo Not in my UI, unfortunately. This is a good start, though.
For accessibility reasons it also needs more than just color to differentiate, but I appreciate that devs don’t have enough hours in their day.
- Jul 3, 2026, 11:06 AM
@Havoc_online @randahl @leeloo @mahryekuh
I like the way it looks in the Tusky UI
patterpatterfloof@meow.socialJul 3, 2026, 10:27 AM@leeloo @mahryekuh @randahl yeah, that's often been a concern on the commercial networks
"what if post goes viral then gets edited to industrial grade racism or something"
David Howellshinybat@zeroes.caJul 4, 2026, 3:28 AM@patterfloof @leeloo @mahryekuh @randahl It's probably singlehandedly enough to justify the absence of the feature there tbh
Rachel Rawlingslinuxandyarn@hachyderm.ioJul 3, 2026, 5:10 PM@leeloo @mahryekuh @randahl Moshidon shows the new post with deleted text in red, new in green, as well as a copy of the previous version.
But there are no typographical callouts like you would see in a diff, nor any icons.
- Rachel Rawlingslinuxandyarn@hachyderm.ioJul 3, 2026, 7:59 PM
Caspar van der Burghcasparvdburgh@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 9:19 AM@mahryekuh @randahl that seems so healthy and logical. Dare I assume that this is not the standard on the other platforms?
- Marijke Luttekesmahryekuh@hachyderm.ioJul 3, 2026, 9:48 AM
@casparvdburgh @randahl I’ve not seen this on other platforms. I can get nasty if someone does a bait and switch from a lovely message to something dubious.
- Caspar van der Burghcasparvdburgh@mastodon.socialJul 4, 2026, 6:18 PM
@mahryekuh @randahl for a very brief moment I considered poking the bear but then I went all grown up again
Jul 3, 2026, 8:51 AMIs Threads really still a thing?
- Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 8:54 AM
@ckd unfortunately yes. It is gigantic because all Instagram users were push onto it.
Jul 3, 2026, 4:20 PM
flofasnix@fe.disroot.orgJul 3, 2026, 8:55 AM@randahl
And in probably all fediverse software (not just Mastodon).
Jul 3, 2026, 8:55 AM@randahl@mastodon.social You can edit post if you use mu.social client instead of bsky.app's one. And you can use that client for any account besides the ones under Eurosky too. You can check the history like on Mastodon.
Jul 3, 2026, 9:27 AM- Jul 3, 2026, 9:40 AM@kkdk@mastodon.social @randahl@mastodon.social After a close inspection, it seems only for recent posts, which is kinda like Threads I believe (I don't use Threads anymore, so I don't know exactly now).
Jul 3, 2026, 8:59 AM@randahl I must say I find it annoying that people keep “bridging” Bluesky et al to Mastodon. We should be encouraging people to switch to Mastodon.
Molly in MissouriwhatzanameJul 3, 2026, 3:12 PM
IceMaker47IceMaker47@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 9:09 AMYou can?
Edit: You can indeed!
Minamina@berlin.socialJul 3, 2026, 9:25 AMOne of my favourite features, ever!
Jul 3, 2026, 9:27 AMBut for how much longer can Mastodon be the platform we know and love with misguided age verification in our future?
dxzdbdxzdb@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 8:05 PM
GogumaPictoPulse356@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 9:30 AM
Anders Puck Nielsenanderspuck@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 9:55 AM@SuiGeneris3722
Well, in fairness, only one of those is actually trying to monetize making edits.
@randahl- Anders Puck Nielsenanderspuck@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 10:03 AM
@SuiGeneris3722
Okay, I see your point. I think a reasonable argument can be made for setting a time limit because it is fair to people who boost your post that it isn't suddenly changed dramatically. 15 minutes should be enough to correct typos.
@randahl 
Fazal Majidfazalmajid@vivaldi.netJul 3, 2026, 10:49 AM@anderspuck @SuiGeneris3722 @randahl a better solution is showing edit history with diffs the way Wikipedia does it.
On the other hand, people now leave typos deliberately uncorrected to prove they are human and not AI. Except now AIs deliberately make typos to mimic this.
- Anders Puck Nielsenanderspuck@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 11:34 AM
@fazalmajid Yes and no. 90 percent of people would never dive into the edit history, and also many people will never discover that something they've boosted has been changed.
This means that anyone with a cat video that's gone viral can change the text and get reach with whatever message they want.
Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦osma@mas.toJul 3, 2026, 12:01 PMAt least Mastodon will send a notification to anyone who interacted with a post if it is edited. That said, the protocol does not enforce this -- you could create an ActivityPub implementation that didn't notify boosters of edits made after their boost. Their subscribers wouldn't necessarily see the edit, either.
@anderspuck @fazalmajid- Anders Puck Nielsenanderspuck@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 12:31 PM
@osma @fazalmajid Exactly. And big channels will often suffer from notification overflow, so it's easy to miss that there was an important one among them.
- Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦osma@mas.toJul 3, 2026, 12:33 PM
Notifications are relatively easy to filter though, if you'd be concerned about missing a notification of an edit to a boosted post. Mastodon's own apps are nowhere near the state of the art for this (or any other usability feature).
@anderspuck @fazalmajid - Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦osma@mas.toJul 3, 2026, 12:34 PM
It would also be trivial to set up an automation that retracts the boost from any post which is edited post-boost.
@anderspuck @fazalmajid - Anders Puck Nielsenanderspuck@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 1:39 PM
@osma Yes, it can work well for most people, but if you have an account with thousands of notifications every day, it gets hard to keep up. I think it's fine to just set a time limit for people to correct typos and then lock the post. That also solves the issue.
- Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦osma@mas.toJul 3, 2026, 1:42 PM
That's the nice thing about not defining the policy on the network level but instead provide notifications. Each actor may decide their own.
@anderspuck - Anders Puck Nielsenanderspuck@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 1:49 PM
@osma Not sure I understand. What i mean is that if a post is boosted on Bluesky by someone like Mike Masnick, then it reaches his 200k+ subscribers. It's not reasonable to expect him to stay constantly alert to changes, if one of his reposts is suddenly turned into a crypto ad.
- Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦osma@mas.toJul 3, 2026, 2:22 PM
No, it wouldn't be. But it would be easy for him to automate it, to retract boosts of any post edited over 15 minutes after his boosting. That is, if Bluesky supported edits (it apparently does support displaying edits bridged from Fedi, btw!)
@anderspuck 
Mastodon Migrationmastodonmigration@mastodon.onlineJul 3, 2026, 3:33 PMThis is an interesting discussion. Back before Mastodon had edits the concern was raised of people getting boosted and then substantially changing the post. Edit history and notification resulted from these concerns.
In the years since editing was provided on Mastodon, have not seen even one single accusation of editing being used to change the meaning in this way. None. Zero. So seems like this is really not an issue with the present safeguards.
- Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦osma@mas.toJul 3, 2026, 3:37 PM
I have neither. That's not to say it could not happen, of course: fedi is small and the attempts to game the network have not yet been very established. Boost-gaming is probably not the weakest area though - easy to mitigate, compared to many other issues related to weak moderation tools. Reply spamming, for example, is more prevalent.
@mastodonmigration @anderspuck - Mastodon Migrationmastodonmigration@mastodon.onlineJul 3, 2026, 3:49 PM
Agreed. Feel like it really comes down to a matter of integrity. If a poster were to do that it would be noticed and they would be called to account. Also, it is just not the way people work, and the utility is fantastic. Other things are more realistic concerns.
- Anders Puck Nielsenanderspuck@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 6:45 PM
@osma I've seen people playing with beta versions of some AT Proto app trying out edits in Bluesky, so I'd be surprised if it doesn't show up soon.
- Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦osma@mas.toJul 3, 2026, 6:53 PM
I found out entirely by accident that my toot edits changed the bridged posts, too. Don't know exactly when it started.
@anderspuck - Randahl Finkrandahl@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 11:51 AM
@anderspuck I disagree with the time limit on edits, simply because it has never been a problem on Mastodon that there is no time limit.
And even if we one day saw a wave of bad edits that reversed the meaning of posts, we could just block those accounts exploiting the edit function this way.
Jul 3, 2026, 12:03 PM@randahl It is the usual schizophrenia of commercial social media.
They want to appear to be free but they are not. So they need some thumb screws to make people pay. The possibility of edits is a useful
screwfeature 😉.
Rihards Olupsrichlv@mastodon.socialJul 3, 2026, 12:27 PM@masek @randahl @anderspuck @SuiGeneris3722 Screawture - looks like a feature but is intended to screw you out of money.
notsoloudnotsoloud@expressional.socialJul 3, 2026, 1:26 PM@randahl
I also like it when people use it to announce "EDIT - We have enough answers now!"
@anderspuck @SuiGeneris3722
