this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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I know it's a lot more complexity, but I wish we just had edit history for everything. You edited your comment? Easy enough for someone to go back and see that you didn't change your meaning. You changed your opinion? Edit your post's content and people will still know the context of the replies.
It's just text but I'm sure I'm underestimating it, especially at social media scale.
Anyone smarter than me know how much storage (I assume that's most of the problem) overhead we're talking with a version control system?
Given, we may not have a version control system that is appropriately designed for social media yet, so pre-existing software like git might not be efficient.
Not much, and something with branches would be overengineered