I’m not saying Lemmy should be some kind of court room stenographer, I’m just saying it’s nice to see the original post when someone changes it substantially. This happens fairly often on Reddit, and it’s annoying trying to figure out what the responses were referring to unless they happened to quote it. This is especially true in political and news subreddits where someone says something unpopular and edits it, and sometimes that unpopular thing is interesting.
We have precedent here with publicly auditable mod logs, so why not public edit history? My edits are almost exclusively typos with the occasional link update or whatever, and I imagine that’s true for the vast majority of users, so I really don’t see an issue. We could implement it as a plugin if needed (all edits are federated, so it wouldn’t be that hard to build an instance that preserves history), so we should just make it a feature.