Hi Victor,

Still developing my thoughts on this so maybe premature. We were so long without an edit button on twitter that the pendulum has swung the other way, community editing of your posts.

Can't figure out if it's creepy dystopian ministry of truth stuff or if it's freedom tech genius.

Like GPTs, and Google before them, human agency is not taken away, but rather worn down bit by bit as you give up striving to lead and let the thing you're striving with take over. Google did this very slowly, pace you while you think you're in control, then start leading you as you abdicate the thinking process in favour of convenience, acceptance, excitement, or whatever. We're now adapting to gpts at the point where we get exhausted with prompt engineering and retraining, and just start accepting the outputs bias and all... even letting it tell us what a better question would be, and silly me for having an original thought or curiousity in the first place.

Now I can write something freely and send it here, transmitted by relays no less. You add fork functionality. At first my fellow plebs help me out with forked edits and I feel some agency in filtering each one. Then the volume ticks up and maybe if my thoughts are more controversial I attract some bots (human or algorithmic) who edit hard and fast to nudge my thinking, my phrasing, my acceptable speech constrained within the appointed overton window... and at some point I give in, exhausted, and start accepting the changes so that my edited thoughts might still be heard while my original ones die in the darkness.

Eventually the majority demand auto merge as a convenience to remove friction and ensure the highest note velocity through the network, guaranteed through prior community editing.

Welcome back to 1984.

I see this is such an easy attack vector on an emerging freedom tech, but as I'm not a dev with skin in the game, my opinion is just an opinion.