It's a leftover from reddit. A comment would be marked as "edited" if you changed anything after posting it, and since some people are shitheads and change their comments to say completely different things after people have already replied to them it's just a way to inform people that the edit you made to your comment was just to fix typos and not anything significant
Lemmy posts also show they are edited.
Though I never wrote that I fixed a typo on reddit either. Only stating the edit if it was adding info or changing something.
Lemmy even shows ninja edits. On Reddit you had a few minutes to get a quick edit in before it would be marked as edited. Lemmy gives the mark even if you edit within 5 seconds.
Like so
I leave spelling mistakes once somebody replied and no comment about fixing it before that.
I fix spelling mistakes once someone replied because that's when I come back and see my comment again and notice the spelling mistake.
I tend to ~~leav~~ leave both correct and bad spellings.
Easy solution; show edit history.
The only problem is if you accidentally include some personal information or other type you don't want to be out there and you've edited it out, you probably don't want it to be accessible.
I mean, u can still delete whole comment
The same is literally here? You will aso got a mark for an edited comment.
So you can edit something significant and just add "edit: typo".
It's funny how people think writing "edit: typo" is more "transparent" and whatnot.
These people don't know about lying.
Or people can change their comment and leave in "Edit: typo" to throw people off their trails, like I just did.
What, did you think I was gonna be deceptive?
EDIT: Typo
Hey man I didn’t know that and that’s super helpful. Thanks for sharing!
«Or people can change their comment and leave in "Edit: typo" to throw people of their trails» indeed, my friend
In my opinion it's not useless at all. Lemmy marks the comments as edited, but that's just to show the fact that it was edited. But if you add the reason why you edited, that makes it a whole lot more transparent.
Sometimes it could happen that I see a great comment full of great ideas from a great user, and it could be lengthy as well. Then later I go back to see the reactions, and I see the comment was edited. If I don't know what was edited on it, then I have to read the whole comment again. But if it's clearly stated that only typos were fixed, then I don't bother with re-reading the comment.
Lemmy needs to get rid of edit if you edit within 1 min. Often you'll see a typo after you post and you have to edit. There should be a grace period like reddit.
It is not worthless, it tells you that the post was edited and that the author didn't try to hide it.
I'd rather have it be known why I've edited my message, rather than leave people to question if I'd edited the body or meaning of my message. In my case it's an accredited science lab thing, but I imagine lots of corporate and legal professionals do the same.
As long as as you don't use ETA as an abbreviation for "edited to add", you are ok. That shit was suddenly everywhere on reddit, god darn kids and them fancy ambiguous acronyms!!! shakes fist at clouds
I never say why I edit my comments and no one ever asked me.
Whoever asks me why I edited this comment eats farts for breakfast.
But why did you edit that one?
Because if somebody pointed out a spelling error, you aren't making them look like the idiot.
But making others look like idiots is what the internet is all about!
Sometimes I don't want to say "edit: my fat thumbs typed 'thumps' instead of 'thumbs' " but I don't want anyone to assume foul play when they see my comment has been edited.
I hate people that edit stuff
I don't see what you did there.
Edit: now I do...
~~I don't~~ Me too
I know it's a lot more complexity, but I wish we just had edit history for everything. You edited your comment? Easy enough for someone to go back and see that you didn't change your meaning. You changed your opinion? Edit your post's content and people will still know the context of the replies.
It's just text but I'm sure I'm underestimating it, especially at social media scale.
Anyone smarter than me know how much storage (I assume that's most of the problem) overhead we're talking with a version control system?
Given, we may not have a version control system that is appropriately designed for social media yet, so pre-existing software like git might not be efficient.
Edit: Just to completely change the whole meaning of the post to make people who responded to me look like assholes.
I still prefer when people do that if it after people already replied. Especially if those typos were significant enough to cause misunderstandings. The whole chain just becomes confusing if you fix them without any edit log.
Back in the early days of Reddit if you edited something it was marked as such, but people didn’t know what you edited. So, as a courtesy, you explained your edit.
Lots of platforms now have an ‘edited’ notification so it’s still common to leave the ‘E:’ comment.