What

A checkbox on the settings page to optionally disable federating updates of existing posts.

Why

Previously:

If you edit an old post, that is not yet on mastodon, then it is technically an Update Activity but it shows up on Mastodon after the Update, so Mastodon seem to handle Updates without the updated timestamp as an Create.

I edit old posts (from before installing this plugin) every now and then, and find it pretty awkward when this causes those posts to show up on Mastodon as if they were new — more so than not federating updates at all. That’s why I’d like to have that option: to be able to disable federating updates altogether.

Only federating updates for posts that have already shown up on Mastodon would be a better solution, but also a bit more complex I believe. (It’d require some way to keep track of this status, as also mentioned in the issue that the quote above is from.)

How

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