Because fiatjaf is writing them on purpose to destroy your timeline.
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Ooooh that sounds great, he is doing a great job then, because it is very annoying 🤣
Yeah... Lots of people already blocked him because of that.
Rotating through the edits is awesome! I discovered that just now.
When will he play all of star wars in ASCII using edits, I wonder?
Apart from being visually annoying, does it also affect load performance? Is that something you're looking into?
I've been happily pressing the edit button to cycle back to the original post, but I feel like instead of cycling, if it loaded a selector and if it only loaded notes you ask for, that might help bandwidth?
It shouldn't. The events are so small that it doesn't do much. We also delete edits from memory very quickly if the post is not in your list anymore.
But some people have said that Fiatjaf's profile crashes for them because there it loads the edits of all posts. And all of it together then can create problems.
do edits push the note to the top or something? whats the attack?
Fiatjat posts a regular item and then blasts 400 edits with random stuff. The last one always shows up right now, but I am making an option to see the original post first for each user. So, people can keep seeing fiatjaf's original post while seeing the regular edits for everyone else.
is he stress testing or just being a dick? lol
Yes.
If we don't attack ourselves, our enemies will instead.
he's trying to prove a point by being insufferable; he opposes the edit feature because it can be misused, so to prove that he... well... misuses the feature; but I think he doesn't realize that clients can deal with this.
for example a client could show up to the last n edits, or only show edits where only x percent of the post changes, or a myriad of other things I'm not thinking of
For me, the original show up first.
The Edit should be highlighted so people would be compelled to press I didn't knew that pressing it switch to the original like til a month ago.
It always crashes the app for me after hitting the editted several times.
But I wouldn't change a product that many use, just to despite one user.
how about an option to not see edits at all?