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How to do ghost edits on comments? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 days ago by AntiBullyRanger@ani.social to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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When I first experienced this, I thought it was a technical hiccup or something.

When I got DARVO’d for it. I learned it was deliberate.

Now that I am witnessing someone do it to me as a nonmoderator & admin, I guess it's a client side exploit.

Any ideas?

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On my client (Thunder) the comments you talk about show with an edit symbol, so maybe it's a UI bug, or instance specific bug

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

I assume it's a lemmy exploit, since the live one doesn't show it. And the Nazi one still doesn't.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never seen it, but based on the architecture, they’d have to have control of a lemmy server or an email server used as part of the publishing process to do it.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago

wait, explain the email method.

I seriously doubt NewNewAugustEast controls lemmy.zip, which is why I made the post in the first place. I linked on the main post a live url of edits having been done live. The archiveh ones are clear on the last “it.”