Vordio
If you edit a post it should remove all likes and reposts. That way can’t do a bait and switch.
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Vordio
I think just a label is too soft. People may still try it. Needs to be nuclear like the block to cut off bad behaviour at the root.
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Bossett
some kind of 'edit allowed so long as the post doesn't have traction' control seems fine - you get the good effect (just noticed a typo, etc.) without the bad effect (flipping your post to a malicious link/misinfo/spam/completely different take/etc. if it goes viral)
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Tim
exactly
Tim@timburga.com· 8 Oct 2024
ooh these are fun okay, um, how about when you edit a post you have to decide whether or not to leave the history accessible, and if you choose "not" it removes all likes and reposts
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Bossett
would it be an ethical application of AI to detect if you changed the substance of the post, and if you did, it deletes your account I'm not a doctor but I think it's fine 🤔
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Tim
that's a great start if we leave the door open for additional consequences
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Vordio
Most people will notice a typo pretty quickly before it takes off. So not much is lost. Currently I make a new post and delete old one. Edit just saves a step.
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Vordio
But bad faith actors absolutely will abuse it if no time limit or penalty. Imagine post something nice. Then wait for reposts. Then edit to be nasty. You’ve now dragged innocent reposters into a mess.
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
I think Mastodon has solved this pretty well long ago (edited label + a list of versions, asterisk next to the timestamp to highlight, and a notification when something you reposted is edited) People might want to edit for various legitimate reasons and not necessarily in the first minute or two.
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Vordio
Edit history only works for reposts if you only show the version someone actually reposted. Otherwise people can get scammed. Also why make it so complicated? It doesn’t need to be. It’s a bloody short post.
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Vordio
I think techies are often naive to the problem to be solved. It may be a social one not a technical one. We don't really need git for social media. A short post is not something to be tracked over complex changes for years. It's a brain fart. You just need to make sure it can't be taken avantage of.
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foo
Yup, I’m with you I don’t even wanna see the to-do list they have in front of them though haha
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Aaron Mills 🏳️‍⚧️
Eh, bizarrely I think Twitter handles it right (but it was worked on pre-Musk, so). Retweets and likes and replies are linked to the version of the post. Edits are shown as a history, and there's a link on the post to new versions of posts. It does cut down the abuse vector.
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