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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 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