Ok weird #Apple#iPad situation: got an iOS system alert on my devices yesterday that ‘a new iPad has been added to your Apple ID and has access to iMessage.’ But I haven’t added a new device.
Checked my account, there is no new iPad I don’t recognize there. But I did order a new M4 Pro. Could Apple have somehow preemptively added it to my account?
UPDATE: Apprently this is a bug going around triggered by updating a device with iOS 17.5, which I did do.
By the way: This post ^^^ is one of the reasons I am a supporter of being able to edit social media posts as long as there is a paper trail of previous iterations.
In other places, this post could've kept going around for hours and people would've kept replying with all kinds of ideas when we solved it ~ 15 minutes after I posted.
You can click the little timestamp thingy and see the previous iterations (FB figured this out a decade+ ago). It's useful. It's important.
@chartier one important factor to take into account, though: the edits only show up on instances where at least one user follows you. If your post was boosted onto a server where no one follows you, it won't actually show the update on that server
@chartier well, it's due the decentralized nature of ActivityPub. What happens when you create or edit a post, is that your instance contacts the instance of everyone who follows you and sends it to them.
If you post from instance A and my friend sees the post on instance B and then boosts it into my instance C, I see it. Then you edit it, and your instance contacts the instance of everyone you follow to send the update. But since no one on my instance follows you, your instance won't know to send an update, leaving the original to stay as-is.
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