#mastotips

I sometimes notice people deleting posts instead of editing them. So here is a tip:

On Mastodon, posts move around like e-mails in the mail system. However, if you edit a post, you are able to correct the error in posts already sent. So that is good.

However, if you delete your post and create a new post, there is now two posts in the system. And people may begin to interact with the deleted post only to see it suddenly disappear. This is obviously confusing, so editing is better.