On Edits, Amethyst offers 5 options to our users:

1. You can just not edit. No one is forcing you to edit your post if there is a typo on it. You can see the original text from anyone else with a single click on the editted label.

2. Edit with history, where you can see all the changes that anyone made to their post. The entire history is there. Hit the post's 3-dot menu and click edit.

3. Edit without history. You can delete your post and post again. Most relays will comply and your post will be gone. You can post in the past and in the future (albeit that requires you to change the phone's clock, post and move it back, but we will make it easier in the future).

4. Annotate as a reply. Author's posts are the first on all thread views. If you want to fix something but don't want to edit it, you can simply reply to your own post and your post will be first in the reply view.

5. Fork your own post. You can fix your typos and post again as a fork. This will keep both the original post and the modified post on your follower's timeline to make sure you are informing them that you modified what you said.

Users, not devs, can choose what they prefer using in each separate occasion.

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Thnkyou! 😉

Can i also choose to never see other people's edits, just the original? Bonus points: i get to choose for which use i see the original content and for which user i see edits.

Yeah, I think we will do a preference per user in a similar way we mark what to see first on translations between two languages.

You would just mark to always the the edited or the original post from a given user.

I like that option.

And clients are free not to implement edits, which would discourage users from doing so?

Yes, other clients are free to not implement the Edit with history (the others are kinda forced on you).

But that doesn't discourage users from using it.

The thinking is: I will edit for my followers that can see the edit. The others will see the original post as they prefer.

The problem is that giving users this much freedom should only be done in a way that doesn't burden all clients with the task of implementing all possibilities

They don't have to implement it. Many users clearly don't want to see edits, so those would love to use that client.

Yes, I guess edits have a natural graceful degradation as long as you're not doing weird stuff.

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Yeah, but maybe fix it so whoever is fucking with the feeds doesn't show this purple white shit cuz I can't read notes now.

Just block them. They are doing this on purpose to affect your feed. They deserve to be blocked.

I want to toggle the edit-view off, tho. Don't have that option.

We can add that. It could be per user as we do with the preference of translations.

For me, option 2 seems the best. Being able to edit, but without discarding the original post and previous edits.