Postel's Law is widely considered to be a mistake... It results in tons of unspecified and inconsistent behavior. Better to be strict in what you accept, and if needed, update standards.

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yes but other clients can generate data that will literally break damus, so its inevitable. I either have to say “sorry your account is broken now” or accept the reality and try to recover from bad data gracefully.

...and you supporting that breakage rather than just accepting that those notes can't be displayed leads to more breakage. You can't fix everything.