

Hey! I just wanted to chime in here and mention that this seems to be a Lemmy issue. I was able to reproduce this on lemmy.world by following your exact set of steps (create a comment, edit it, don’t change anything, save it). Lemmy marks the comment as edited.
In Thunder, we just retrieve the edited state from Lemmy, so I’m not sure we can do anything about this case, but you might want to submit a bug report here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
It’s not exactly what you’re asking, but you can view the post as a different user, which would presumably have a different blocklist, so then you could see the comments.
Video: https://files.catbox.moe/l61lry.mp4
I like the idea of being able to view anonymously, too, from your configured anonymous accounts. The infrastructure is there in the post to “view as…” so that might not be too hard to add.
That would be awesome!