I know. I prefer comments not showing up at all if they are out of context
Up to Damus to support that or nip-31, especially Will who is particularly pissed with clients writing kind 1s with just an a-tag
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I think these are two separate things; the e vs a tag is not really related to kind:1s replying to non-kind1s, which is the context issue.
e vs a is mainly about the version an event is tagging, which I think it's blown out of proportion honestly, but the NIP already recommends e tagging NIP-33s too 😅