What are your thoughts on Signal's policy for edited messages?

PurpleDime: > IMHO, if the user has not seen the message, we should be able to hide all the edits from them. What you send is out of your hands by the time the recipient receives it. There’s no guarantee that the recipient’s device will abide by any request to delete or edit the message. Giving the sender vague promises about what you can achieve is poor design. The only place I see for it is collective agreement against third parties, basically, disappearing messages. The weird part is the edit feature retains the original message, but you can destroy remotely the sent message. The disparity between should be either explained, or resolved to either direction. Deleting the messages is useful if you want to take back what you said, but the “this message was deleted” messages can be even more eyebrow raising in some cases. Remote message deletion does answer a “I need to get rid of this message but I can’t reach them and we don’t have disappearing messages enabled now” threat model so I kind of get it. The trade of is cyber bullying etc where you don’t want the other person to walk over your right to retain evidence on your device. It would be interesting to know how Signal behaves if you block someone, can they still issue message deletion requests.