why is the appview responding with altered post contents?

it’s not. can you guess the trick?

Double post, no delete? Different records served to different relays/appviews? (only the bluesky appview shows the emoji that I can see) Some of the likes on your post have different CIDs too.

nope, it’s simpler than that

I'm guessing some sort of edit? I just have no idea where the new post is

seems like bluesky only shows the initial version in post form, but its search uses the latest version

bingo!

very funny that the other appviews allow edits yet don't show any UI to indicate it in their clients