I like forever typos they also show the human elements of just typing and hitting post shoot straight from the hip

😊 thanks

This is precisely why it is important to keep a visible edit history...

Edits are not simply about typo, they are also about retractions and about matters that need updating, such as index lists.

Most clients display images and most images are just web URLs.

So, while the text of notes cannot be modified, images absolutely can (by just replacing the resource at that URL. No need to modify the URL itself).

This isn't necessarily useful for advertising, but can be used for many of the evil goals that editing can be used for.

The main issue with editing, in my view, is the fact that it makes rendering every post inefficient: currently, without edits, the client can display a post as soon as it fetches it, then cancel the request for that post towards all relays. With edits, the client needs to fetch all edits and be sure to wait long enough, since the first answer it receives might not contain the most recent edit (that's because relays have incomplete information).

This is very important.

Nostr is a network of trust. Keep Nostr weird.

You can that sort of do with nostr too by embedding an url to an image. Later on you can change that image. To prevent that, nostr should add something like etags (sha256 checksum) to an event for links to static elements. Clients can then check their validity. Also relays could prefetch these static files and provide them to clients in additional http requests. Clients can verify them by the etags. This would make nostr safer and easier to scale,.since static content is distributed.

Like in the physical world, newspapers don’t get edited once they’re published & distributed.

That’s a huge incentive, to publish ‘The Truth’ unlike Digital Newspapers who ‘edit’ out lies with zero consequences.

I never thought id be such a big fan of no edits until I read this thread.

Team No Edits 🤝