@iamtakingiteasy @locagainstwall

> Sounds like client problem.

You could say that about anything, practically. Expecting a complex client is a server problem. Expecting a dozen clients to absorb the complexity is a CADT problem, expecting them to cope with a dozen servers' different ideas about how to implement the feature is worse.

The "how to edit posts without making it terrible" discussions happened a long time ago, the worst version got implemented. "No feature" is better than "bad feature", so FSE went with "no feature". Other servers went with "bad feature", that's their call. It is a network, plenty of room for varied servers running varied software, but the simpler things are, the easier it is for hackers to build servers/clients, sysadmins to deploy them, and users operate them. Edits are a lot of complexity for all three of those groups, and they provide dubious value. I intend to ignore post editing to the extent possible.

> Should be relatively trivial to display highlighted line/character diff between selected revisions.

It's easy to add one feature, in isolation, to one client that talks to one server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion

This thread, this is part of the complexity. Here is a person that edits posts, and FSE doesn't support that and FSE isn't the only server that doesn't support that, and while there exist any servers that don't support that, this complexity gets pushed onto the user.

I use bloat, PleromaFE, and the ssh interface. There are people here using MastoFE, different versions of bloat, Husky/Tusky, Subway Tooter, etc. Except the ssh interface, all of those clients talk to different versions of Pleroma, Mastodon, etc.