I remember years ago when there was talk of the edit feature on the bird app. There were some legitimate concerns about how people would use it.
I came over to the Fediverse and this is how people use it 😂

@stephaniepixie tools given can be used in many ways. It will highly depend on your bubble and for the servers the communities they nurtured.

There is so much controversies around edits and quote post. Other software (read not mastodon) had that stuff for some time shows that it can work.

But its that people just need to not be assholes. In my circles is either used for correcting mistakes after posting (how I use it mostly) or to add information learned later to the original post.

Quotes are kinda the same. It is also kinda funny that you show how kinda useless mastodons proposal for “controlling quote-posts” is.

Ohno I am not allowed to quote-post! takes screenshot dunks on person still. (I am not saying this is what you did btw to be clear!)

Can both be abused? Yeah. But it seems to rather show a problem with the community rather than the tools.

@stefan Yes, absolutely it’s often the people using the tools rather than the tools themselves that cause issues, but editing without getting a notification would legit be a problem. As it stands we only get notifications for posts we boost, not the ones we simply like, but that doesn’t seem to be much of an issue so far.

I’ve been using the Mona app for a couple of years on Mastodon and I’ve been able to quote post the entire time, but as you say, there’s ways around it.
I’ve seen lots of people use quote posts for a long while. I’m not sure it’ll be used in same way as the bird app did.

@stephaniepixie
"Editing without getting a not notification"

Huh I never even heard of that. My software (being akkoma) does not do that. I mean I may get where this may come from...

Like: *"bad actor" does post which is bad/full of hate*

*gets called out*, *edits post*

"See I never said that! You have no proof!"

I just be fortunate enough not see alot of that. That one instance might be dansup or something. But normally my bubble is fairly free of shitty behaviour. I pick people I follow and only really look at my follow-timeline. I never use the federated one. That said I am a single user on my server so it would not look too different. Your post just made it to me as someone I follow boosted it. And it seemed like an interesting thing to me.

(or its just me wanting to dunk on mastodons weird desicions again wanting to everything differently and then shove it down the other softwares throats)

generally I do trust the people I follow to not be shit. And people use stuff responsibly or sometimes for fun. Though I do also see why quotes might be considered problematic. But tbh bad actors will be bad no matter.

Also you guys get notifs for posts you yourself boost?

Or do you mean when you get a notif when someone boosts your post? I thought for some time to disable those "x boosted your post" and "x favorited your post" thingies.

Though the favorites can be a nice indicator of "x has seen your post" as well. But they also can clutter up your notifs quickly. Maybe burriying the notifs for replys.

@stefan I meant that the edited posts by people whose posts I’ve boosted shows up in my notifications (like the image I included in my original post), but if I simply like a post (and don’t boost it) and that person edits their post I’ll never get a notification of the edit.
I’m not too worried about this, but public figures on Twitter and Instagram have been known to have old liked posts be highlighted as being problematic because of what the post said.
I know athletes who liked racist posts on Twitter (didn’t retweet it) and it was written about. The athlete got major backlash (as they should).
You can imagine if someone liked a post about something cute and not racist and then the post was edited to be something racist it would be a problem.
Currently if I only liked a post on Mastodon and that person edited it, I would not get a notification of that edit. I would only get a notification of an edited post I boosted.

I’m on a small instance that is very well moderated so I feel safe, but the increase of people on instances like “mastodon.social” that are not well moderated does mean people have to be more careful.