tef on Nostr: someone suggested to me that "querying for supported features" is a bad idea and that ...
someone suggested to me that "querying for supported features" is a bad idea and that engines should have a broader level of support
which, well, is a nice idea, but in practice your code ends up working around the non portable, incomplete versions of features, and some code that fingerprints the implementation in lieu of a query api for support
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