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  • Jul 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

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  • Jul 3, 2026, 3:33 PM

    @osma @anderspuck

    This 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.

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  • Jul 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

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  • Jul 3, 2026, 3:49 PM

    @osma @anderspuck

    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.

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  • Jul 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.

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