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hi Bluesky! 🦋 i’ve been chosen as the new head of product here at Bluesky HQ! and i couldn’t be more excited to hack with this incredibly talented team on making this site better for everyone.

since i started coding in my teens, i’ve been obsessed with making social apps and tools that let anyone build their own communities on the open web. no walled gardens, no shady incentives.

the internet belongs to you.

we all deserve more of the good parts of social media with less of the bad. that’s why i joined Bluesky. i personally want a better place to hang out and have real conversations online. i think the world does too. we have wind in our sails.

as head of product, my job is simple: listen to you and bring you more of what you want from social. first up… a feature so requested, we lost count of how many times you asked. any guesses??

Private accounts? Not yet, huh? I bet it's editing posts.

i believe editing posts is possible with the AT protocol in its current state, private accounts are not.

editing posts should never happen; anathema to this kind of web site. delete or correct or let it be

atproto records (bsky posts) will NEVER be editable. Once created, they cannot be changed. However, bluesky will likely build 'edit' records that reference previous posts. When the app shows a post, it will show the most recent edit instead. I'd expect it to allow anyone to view the history.

that is how it works under the hood, but updating a record is already possible. still just another commit on the repo but to implementers it would function just the same as an in-place mutation. you can even specify what version of a record you want when retrieving! docs.bsky.app/docs/api/com...