Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.
I don't know mine. I do remember sitting in my kitchen at the family computer listening to the modem connect via an AOL disc though. Sometime in the late 90s if I had to guess.
Apparently in 1998 half of all cds produced worldwide had an AOL logo on them. Wild.
I know one person still using MMS, because they refuse to get a Internet capable cellphone.
There is one phone in our family that can send them SMS, everyone else gets error messages. How is that even possible? I thought SMS are standardized.
Missed that. Which side gets the error? The sender? Must be carrier weirdness.
Alternatively, they opted in for RCS somewhere somehow but they don't have an online RCS client so RCS capable senders get errors unless you explicitly set the app to send SMS only to this person
The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.
Even if a third party app supported it, it'd still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.
Editing a SMS only works between two "smart"phones. Me, I see a second message starting with EDIT, and yes, I can see the previous shit you sent me forever.
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.
I've seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks that let you double tap your own message to edit and I really wish this would become the standard.
But noooo, seems most apps don't have a double tap action or only use it for Emoji Reactions. Wow, truly putting the most useful actions at our fingertips 😒
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.
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.
I just checked, you cannot. One is a group RCS chat, the other is an RCS chat with just a single person. Neither allowed edits. I even check one with a friend where it's an SMS only, no edit.
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.
We must be on different sides of the generational line. Editting texts is something that wasnt available to me until i was old enough to not notice it was possible. Im lucky my T9 "spelling" habits have diminished, but i dont know if my correcting text via * ever will
I guess it depends on how into technology you are. I pay attention to new features of devices and updates and I also read modals when they tell me things. A lot of people just skip past those things so they never learn.
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 :)
108 Comments
starik@lemmy.zip · 90 pts · 189d
I’m in this
photoscreenshot and I don’t like it.Edit: a word
/s
OpenStars@piefed.social · 37 pts · 189d
Hrm... so you went with an edit after all... 🤔😂
FishFace@piefed.social · 8 pts · 189d
Don't you mean "*screenshot"
village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 189d
A screenshot is just a photo of your screen
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 189d
But it doesn involve capturing/recording photons afaik.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
*screenshat
bonenode@piefed.social · 3 pts · 189d
Hawke@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
This is the way.
Asafum@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 189d
....wait what?
I'm pretty tech savvy and had no idea I could edit a text...
Yes, am millennial... Lol
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 68 pts · 189d
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.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 189d
Google Messages doesn't seem to have an edit button despite specifically using "RCS message" as the placeholder text.
CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 189d
There's apparently a 15 minute window to edit
Natanael@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 189d
How many people even remember MMS these days
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 189d
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...
moody@lemmings.world · 12 pts · 189d
These days, WAP is something completely different.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 189d
Yeah, Wireless Access Point obviously. Duh
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
I'm old, so old that I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to indulge an old man?
moody@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 189d
It's a popular song by Cardi B. WAP stands for Wet Ass Pussy
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
That's right up my alley 🤓
Hawke@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
A wireless access point? People still use them all the time… (also old here)
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 189d
nah, Wireless Application Protocol - a way of serving web pages that was very similar to the HyperCard technology of the time.
Ah, the memories of checking football scores on a Nokia 3330 in school playgrounds...
Hawke@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
Holy. Fuck. I didn't think of that 🤣
beetus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Curious, why do you remember day 1 for you?
I don't know mine. I do remember sitting in my kitchen at the family computer listening to the modem connect via an AOL disc though. Sometime in the late 90s if I had to guess.
Apparently in 1998 half of all cds produced worldwide had an AOL logo on them. Wild.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Because my 15 year older brother got it for Christmas for the family that year. We open gifts on the 24th, which if why I remember it.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 189d
This post is a millennial trap, so I'd think most people here?
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 189d
I know one person still using MMS, because they refuse to get a Internet capable cellphone.
There is one phone in our family that can send them SMS, everyone else gets error messages. How is that even possible? I thought SMS are standardized.
Natanael@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 189d
MMS is no longer universally supported among carriers
Hawke@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d
And nothing of value was lost.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 189d
Fine by me, but why can't I send them SMS?
Natanael@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 189d
Missed that. Which side gets the error? The sender? Must be carrier weirdness.
Alternatively, they opted in for RCS somewhere somehow but they don't have an online RCS client so RCS capable senders get errors unless you explicitly set the app to send SMS only to this person
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
All of me.
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 189d
What are some apps that support RCS? I'd prefer to keep Google, Apple, etc off my device.
Natanael@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 189d
Not a lot because you need something that supports what your carrier use and there's no userspace API exposed for it
priapus@piefed.social · 6 pts · 189d
The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.
Even if a third party app supported it, it'd still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 189d
Depends on the message. You can't really edit an SMS.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 189d
I thought you could on Apple
ironeagl@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 189d
Blue bubbles aren't sms
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 189d
It's probably not actually an SMS if it's apple to apple messaging, you're probably using imessage.
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 189d
Editing a SMS only works between two "smart"phones. Me, I see a second message starting with EDIT, and yes, I can see the previous shit you sent me forever.
Michal@programming.dev · 45 pts · 189d
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).
doctordevice@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 189d
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.
Michal@programming.dev · 6 pts · 189d
Notification ping? You guys don't keep your phone on silent?
You just outed yourself as a boomer 😂
doctordevice@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 189d
My phone vibrates for text messages, but even if it doesn't there's no need for two notifications in the tray if a simple edit is possible.
Also I'm talking about the recipient, not myself. I don't know what their settings are necessarily.
cravl@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 185d
I prefer editing if and only if the recipient can see the edit history.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 189d
I've seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks that let you double tap your own message to edit and I really wish this would become the standard.
But noooo, seems most apps don't have a double tap action or only use it for Emoji Reactions. Wow, truly putting the most useful actions at our fingertips 😒
crazyduck@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 189d
In discord you can edit messages by sending a subsequent message like this
s/old/newMonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 189d
*userscripts
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 34 pts · 189d
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.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 189d
Rolder@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 189d
But wouldn’t it say Edited underneath?
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 189d
Depends on the app. Some let you see all versions, I think.
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 29 pts · 189d
But clearly you start with the asterisk
Hawke@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 189d
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.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 189d
Just edit the original message with [sic]
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 189d
This is the way.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 189d
I've always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it's easier for me to type that way.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Asterisk starts a bullet list in a lot of richtext fields that use markdown
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 189d
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
What kind of heathen doesn't?
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 25 pts · 189d
IT IS!!!! ITS LIKE LYING
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 189d
it's like gaslighting people that you were correct in the first place.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 2 pts · 189d
Plus it makes those half attempts at correcting a word way funnier.
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 189d
I'm a big fan of the 'what the duck'...'*fuck' kind of texts. They always make me laugh.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 24 pts · 189d
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.
pir8t0x@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 189d
I'm GenZ but the millennial has a point
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 189d
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.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 189d
Also creates the occasional “I could swear that said something different when I first read it…”
I’ve taken to editing my messages to strike through removals and [edit: italicize] additions/corrections, if I think it could cause confusion.
pir8t0x@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 189d
I like this kind of editing better than the normal type. Feels more fair
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 189d
GenX here, I second the morality of editing texts.
anguo@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 189d
Problem is, edits don't appear in notifications, and not everyone goes as far as opening the messaging app.
teolan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
With Signal the edits show up in the notification.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 189d
Why edit and pretend to be perfect? A quick * shows everyone you're smart enough to spot and fix mistakes *^_^
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 189d
You can edit a text? Hmmm.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 189d
I just checked, you cannot. One is a group RCS chat, the other is an RCS chat with just a single person. Neither allowed edits. I even check one with a friend where it's an SMS only, no edit.
So it seems like it's app specific and not texts.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
I'm sure it's illegal in several jurisdictions.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 189d
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*
Rokin@leminal.space · 12 pts · 189d
It's 2026*
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 189d
fix my typos with *an.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
Depends whether you call it “a splat” or “an asterisk”
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 189d
As a millennial I’ve never heard it called a splat, also, get off my lawn ye damn kids
Hawke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
It’s before our time, early 1970s.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/334947/when-and-where-did-become-splat
“A star” would also be reasonable but I wanted to use the more obscure option.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 189d
You tryna fight!?
JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 189d
WTF did you just say to me?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 189d
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.
djdarren@piefed.social · 9 pts · 189d
I could edit, but what if the edit doesn’t show up at the other end? I couldn’t live with that.
dwemthy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
Got a guy in my group chat (all millennials) who refuses to edit and also follows up with cursing at sleep
dwemthy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
Slope
dwemthy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
Dammit, swept
dwemthy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
Mutha frucking swipe!
dwemthy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
Literally half his messages are like that
PrimeErective@startrek.website · 3 pts · 189d
Still worth it to use swept typing though
PrimeErective@startrek.website · 3 pts · 189d
Swope
tyler@programming.dev · 8 pts · 189d
I’m also a millennial and I was taught how to use a computer so of course I edit my messages.
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 189d
Feel blessed that you never had to deal with drama from someone kicking off that a message no longer says what it used to.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 189d
We must be on different sides of the generational line. Editting texts is something that wasnt available to me until i was old enough to not notice it was possible. Im lucky my T9 "spelling" habits have diminished, but i dont know if my correcting text via * ever will
tyler@programming.dev · 1 pts · 188d
I guess it depends on how into technology you are. I pay attention to new features of devices and updates and I also read modals when they tell me things. A lot of people just skip past those things so they never learn.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 189d
I don't bother to correct it unless the person on the other side is mentally deficient or a grammar nazi.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 189d
“too lazy to swap apps”? huh?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 189d
The text messaging software that came with my android phone doesn't allow text editing.
noride@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 189d
Did you edit this comment in your thread about the immorality of editing messages?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 189d
Si
redwattlebird@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 189d
Paper trail
Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 189d
I still do that way. I don't plan to stop.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 189d
9point6@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Is it bad I have a tendency to edit, but if the typo is particularly hilarious, I'll use an asterisk correction?
Edit: obligatory edit
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
.........you can edit sent messages??
Postimo@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 189d
In iMessage, yes
Gust@piefed.social · 3 pts · 189d
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 :)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 189d
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 189d
Hehe, thus is begins millennials…