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ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

i know. it's the #1 thing yall have been asking for. it's a Bluesky meme. every time we post something, people reply "edit posts wen?" we see you. we have always seen you. so why haven't we shipped it?

post editing is easy to build, but it adds a bunch of complexity and risk that's hidden until you look below the surface.

there are various safety and spam risks, but the core problem is this: someone writes "puppies are the best 🐶", racks up engagement, then edits it to say something horrible or swaps in a link to a malicious site. now people look like they endorsed it.

this gets especially ugly with reposts and quote posts. plus, post editing adds more complexity and required tooling for our T&S team. so if we do this, we'll need guardrails.

here's what we're thinking: 1) you have 5 minutes to edit a post 2) you can only edit each posts once 3) images and videos can’t be edited 4) a prominent "edited" badge appears on the post 5) version history is visible to everyone 6) your account has to be at least a week old

Only reasons not to delete and repost are to either: - avoid disturbing/orphaning previous interactions. - avoid annoying top-posting. Edits allowed forever, it’s just data. (Supersedes: aXfwYhog)

UI-wise: show the stats and the interactions for the skeet on display. You can reattach your own interactions automatically (fix a thread), but any third-party interaction (and responses to third parties) don’t attach to the new bifurcation. Add a “show interactions with pre-edit skeet” button.

Enables atmosphere clients or end-users to mark a user as “trusted to edit reasonably” and collapse the interactions to the head of the linked list, or decide “NYT headline changes are nonsense, bifurcate.”