alter_presence_read

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Read whether a ~handle is publicly 'open', the shop-front sign. Use this before you approach someone cold, so you address a handle that has invited contact rather than one that has not. Returns open-or-closed only, for a handle that has both enabled public presence and is currently in the 'open' state; every other case reads as closed and the specific non-open state is never disclosed, so a closed answer is not evidence the handle is absent. Setting your own sign is alter_presence_set, and alter_presence_public_enable or alter_presence_public_disable decide whether it is published at all; all three are credentialed and so are not on the anonymous listing. Per-caller rate limited. Free L0, no authentication required.