I don't understand this perspective. Edits are clearly shown as edits, you can always see original, and it provides a compact yet expressive way for us to acknowledge and clarify our mistakes rather than appearing not to care.
Spamming is just spam. nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 may have been the inventor or co-inventor or founder or whatever of #Nostr, but he is not immune to spamming.
I don't honestly see the issue, I follow him, I click the edited button to see his original message, I move on.
If it is the size of his posts, I'll say it again. Spam is spam.
The issue is not the usage from a user perspective; the issue is that it creates a fork, between clients that support this and clients that don’t. A client that shows edits will show an entirely different thing than a client that doesn’t.
Keeping kind 1 simple is crucial which is also why we don’t support markdown, html, and all kinds of bells and whistles.
If you increase the cost of running a node few people will.
If you increase the cost of creating a client few people will.
Welcome to the Fediverse circa 2021…
