Posts Editing in Mastodon // Consider Friendica @Dr DeJahang
In response by a post by Dr. DeJahang, posting it on the Local feed directly as it is of general interest.
"Hi Moderators/experts, Admin team at QOTO we have all at more button and only edit is missing" by @drdej555
Yes, and that's by design. The developers of Mastodon created it so; in that sense it is similar to Twitter. No editing there either.
Here we do have a quick work around, if you notice a glitch or typo soon after sending in a post.
you can click the Dots menu at the post's bottom right edge, and select Delete / Redraft from there.
This will delete the post (which is already sent out to other instances, but will be recall/deleted there too), and better yet -- it copies the FULL current post content to the Toot Editor window.
You can make any changes desired and Toot it again.
Any replies, favourites or boosts received by the post will be orphaned, lost -- so this is best done very quickly after posting, not later or a day after.
Another possibility is to use a different platform which is also Federated - I am thinking of Friendica, where I have a test account, and which is more like Facebook in looks and functionality..Friendica allows :
* post editing, anytime you want.
* text formatting.
* sorting feeds by time, or by personal mentions, etc.
It does allow following mastodon accounts, replying and fully interacting with them.
I made a thread of my testing and observations about Friendica here : https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103178433671988813
Main Friendica site: https://friendi.ca/
me at Friendica : @rgx@nerdica.net
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Posts Editing in Mastodon // Consider Friendica @Dr DeJahang
@freemo
We do have some extras here that are very helpful -- the Full Text Search for example, I do find posts very quickly with a couple of well chosen words.
That is sadly missing in many instances, and makes keeping track or content much harder.
I do like some of the added features on GlitchSoc -- if you even have spare time and feel like messing around with the current setup a bit. 😛
Like:
* a trully "Local ONLY" feed - where posts are not federated at all, staying in house only.
(allowing banter and chat and keeping fed feeds clean)
* Bookmarks! They have them. And so does Masto 3.x.x, which incorporated their new feature code.
* a slick additional user control
"Applications control" as shown in screen cap attached.
Screens from hackers.town, which is running :
"Glitchsoc is free open source software forked from Mastodon. You can contribute or report issues on GitHub at glitch-soc/mastodon (v2.9.2+glitch)."
@drdej555 @rgx@nerdica.net