Problem is, edits don't appear in notifications, and not everyone goes as far as opening the messaging app.
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Im surprised lemmy let's you edit the title of posts you make. I appreciate it though as a mistake prone mess of a man. I've only seen one post use this feature maliciously so far so its a good run thus far.
If I mispelled antidisestablishmentarianism, I'm not fucking rewriting the whole god damn word – I'm just editting.
If I mispell butts it gets and asterisk.
Edit: an*
Paper trail
GenX here, I second the morality of editing texts.
Why edit and pretend to be perfect? A quick * shows everyone you're smart enough to spot and fix mistakes *^_^
Sending a Correction is literally so much easier!
To edit message you probably have to long press on it, select Edit, then select the part of text to edit (which is famously easy on mobile /s) then erase and rewrite. There's no point putting this much effort into a chat message! There's a reason people don't capitalise or use punctuation in those.
Sorry I'm with the millennial on this one (being a millennial and a tech savvy person myself).
I'm a millennial and I strongly prefer editing. It's much easier on the recipient not to have to cross-reference your correction with your message, and it usually doesn't result in a separate notification ping.
IT IS!!!! ITS LIKE LYING
it's like gaslighting people that you were correct in the first place.
Plus it makes those half attempts at correcting a word way funnier.
It's 2026*
I still do that way. I don't plan to stop.
But clearly you start with the asterisk
I've always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it's easier for me to type that way.
Asterisk starts a bullet list in a lot of richtext fields that use markdown
*If you don't put space
What kind of heathen doesn't?
No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.
Just edit the original message with [sic]
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You can edit a text? Hmmm.
I'm sure it's illegal in several jurisdictions.
I remember back when I had my moto razor flip phone and I could t9 type with it hidden in my pocket still, I felt so cool and tech savvy. Now people emoji react to my text messages and I can feel my hair turning grey in real time. I'll never give up my typo fixing *s or my ascii /:/)
I’m in this ~~photo~~ screenshot and I don’t like it.
Edit: a word
/s
Hrm... so you went with an edit after all... 🤔😂
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Editing is a power not all people should be trusted with.
You all know at least one person (or are the person) who would text a yes/no like "Did you see Dave today?" and then when you write "yeah" edit their message to "Can I borrow your car?" or something you wouldn't have said yes to.
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.........you can edit sent messages??
In iMessage, yes
....wait what?
I'm pretty tech savvy and had no idea I could edit a text...
Yes, am millennial... Lol
SMS messages, you can't (without two same apps with extensions).
RCS messages, you can.
These days, SMS and RCS messaging just come under the banner of "text messaging". It's pretty handy to be fair, blows MMS out of the water anyway.
Google Messages doesn't seem to have an edit button despite specifically using "RCS message" as the placeholder text.
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How many people even remember MMS these days
I do! I also remember using WAP to read the news. Well, my first venture on the internet was December 24 1994, so I am old...
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I'm GenZ but the millennial has a point
I am millennial, and I prefer to edit. That said, I feel like people are less likely to notice the edit than they are an additional message.
Also creates the occasional “I could swear that said something different when I first read it…”
I don't bother to correct it unless the person on the other side is mentally deficient or a grammar nazi.
I edit it now. I'm sorry but I don't miss the days of 4 pings because I fucked up 4 times. Just edit it and dont crowd the chat.
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