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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.
@chris_e_simpson @phocks but it can be seen also as a feature, if you want to add updates to the post, all people will be notified.
I used it when I updated an app to let all the people who starred/boosted the post with the previous version.
@allanon @phocks I can see how that can be useful, though there are "opt in" ways to do this such as using a separate account purely for important app updates that people can set to receive a notification on all posts. Sounds a little more work, but I have quite an aversion to unwanted notifications and I believe I share that aversion with a quite a large number of people
@chris_e_simpson @phocks I see your point, but what about if I clearly say "like or boost to receive notifications on updates" ?
I think it's fair with those who don't like to much notifications.
Anyway I agree with you that the user should have a switch to avoid further notifications from post updates.
@allanon @phocks it depends if updates are to a specific post that I have boosted to my followers or just additions to a thread. Changing a post that I have boosted makes me endorse or at least draw attention to something other than what I read. I would prefer that endorsement automatically removed until I have a chance to review it again and make a new decision
That's a selectable option (being notified of edits) -- at least under Glitch Edition; maybe that choice isn't available in trunk Masto.
It's not really necessary in most cases because of the edit history always being available.
@chris_e_simpson @phocks I wish there was a "minor edit" version... so if you just change one word or some letters for typos, then it shouldn't need to notify anyone.
@chris_e_simpson @phocks people legitimately make mistakes. I do all the time. We are humans and have not yet been taken over by AI. How often does it really happen though?
The ability to edit is a feature of both the #Fediverse and #Mastodon. Many Mastodon users requested it.
@nicholasr @phocks mistakes that unintentionally change the meaning or that exclude people (such as leaving out alt text) should absolutely be fixed and I've no problem with that, all I want is for the system to automatically unboost or like them so I'm not disturbed
But I don't believe trivial typographic errors are worth the slew of notifications that get sent to people who might be brought back on to the site for no reason. In fact I think many more of us would benefit from deliberately leaving harmless typos. The first time I did this was difficult, but it no longer bothers me now and I wonder how much stress I'm saving from worrying about minor mistakes
@chris_e_simpson @nicholasr no way I'm leaving a typo unedited, that's psychopath behaviour lmao 
@phocks @nicholasr Ha! Though I suspect you are only half joking and the thought of not correcting a typo seems horrific