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Robin Berjon

@robin.berjon.com

Hello — have you ever wanted to edit your posts?

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social

Editing in action

11/6/26, 7:35 am10 reposts31 likes

Astrid Christofori

@astridchristofori.eurosky.social

11 June

This is actually rather troubling as it can invite a kind of "falsification" of posts, especially when there have already been answers/reactions and when the fact that there was an edit is not mentioned after the edit.

Robin Berjon

@robin.berjon.com

11 June

No, because you only have a five minute window and the counters get reset.

Astrid Christofori

@astridchristofori.eurosky.social

11 June

Even within 5 minutes this problem can occur.

Robin Berjon

@robin.berjon.com

11 June

Not seriously, and the post shows as edited anyway.

Dr Joanne Williams

@jowilliams.bsky.social

11 June

Agreed. Like and reposts *must* be reset after an edit, or only applied to the original version. Otherwise posts will be amplified and subsequently changed, twisting the intention of reposters.

Astrid Christofori

@astridchristofori.eurosky.social

11 June

Same for answers.

Dr Joanne Williams

@jowilliams.bsky.social

11 June

Yep. It's still useful perhaps, if you've spend ages constructing a thread with images and alttext, to be able to edit and repost a fresh version - especially if you spot the error quickly! But it has to be as if it were a new post.

Robin Berjon

@robin.berjon.com

11 June

Which is the case...

—>realhackhistory.org

@bsky.realhackhistory.org

No.

Good for you!

—>realhackhistory.org

@bsky.realhackhistory.org

11 June

When twitter started allowing tweet editing it was one more nail in the coffin of the site being useable. What’s next here, blog length skeets? NFT avatars? If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Robin Berjon

@robin.berjon.com

11 June

You seem to confuse not broken for your personal preferences and not broken for others. This is just a suggestion, but my experience is that if I don't want a feature I simply don't use it instead of whining to people about it. It works and it's less effort.