Mastodon adds support for updates of Event objects

I got ask this question a hundred times (as an Mastodon admin, workshop leader, or “Fediverse-mentor”).

“Somethings wrong: why is Mastodon not showing my updated event?”

The answer was simple. Mastodon did not support updates to Event objects or any other objects that it does not natively support, but are converted to a note/status, such as Article. It will soon, though. The code was finally merged into the main branch yesterday.

The main reason was that “Mastodon does pretty arbitrary processing steps to the article before storing it in the database, and those steps are subject to change; if those steps changed between two versions of an article, the changes in processing will also be recorded as edits, misrepresenting them as a change of the underlying article” (Comment by ClearlyClaire).

These reasons are understandable, but I think that the positive aspects of this change far outweigh them. Thank you @Mastodon !