Chris Liss on Nostr: Just posted an article on my other account Real Man Sports with the wrong title, and ...

Just posted an article on my other account Real Man Sports (npub1dwh…qfxe) with the wrong title, and there’s nothing I can do about it because you can’t edit on nostr.

On the one hand, that’s annoying, but I’m starting to come around on this being a feature rather than a bug.

Finality on posts means no altering history. It also incentivizes you to take more care before putting something out into the world. Beacuse even if you edit or delete something, it still went out into the world at the time and created ripples into infinity that can’t be retracted or undone, even if you edited it later.

This is just the same as if you said something in real life to someone. You could apologize later, you could clarify later, but you still said it the way you said it at the time.

In the past too, when you were painting on a canvas or writing on a piece of paper, you had to focus, you had to get it right. What does it do to the quality of mind one has when they can sloppily hit send and fix it later, as opposed to knowing you have to work with care and precision?

Even now, I am making typos and editing *before* I press “post” so it’s still far easier now. Having to live with the version after I post it is really not much of an imposition, and the upside of finality and trust outweighs being stuck with some errors for me.