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[Discussion] What are your opinions on adding an edit history feature to posts and comments on Lemmy? (self.lemmy)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]

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I had a thought recently about how it would be nice to have a sort of "git diff" style edit history for posts and comments. This would elimintate the need for the classic reddit style of "Edit: Spelling". It would also prevent people from completely changing the topic of a post or a comment in the future, thereby nullifying all associated comments and backlinks.

Of course this idea is not new; it has been created as an issue on GitHub aprroximately 2 years ago. The issue has since been closed with the opinion along the lines of "people make edits to hide something that they don't want to be seen by the public".

I'm curious what the current sentiment is of the current userbase of Lemmy regarding this issue. Perhaps over 2 years sentiment has changed? I would love to hear any and all arguments for, and against this feature

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[–] PriorProject 1 points 2 years ago

I'd support an edit history, though maybe it should not apply to deleted (at least publicly, maybe mods should be able to see the pre-deletion history.

To me, the main benefit would be ensuring posts and comments aren't maliciously and invisibly edited to change their meaning after getting voted up the feed.