view: a blocked or missing post is an error, not an empty thread

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What

fulmar view on a blocked post (or a post that has been deleted) printed nothing and exited 0.

getPostThread doesn't 4xx for those: it answers 200 with a thread whose root is an app.bsky.feed.defs#blockedPost / #notFoundPost stub, which carries no post field. flatten_thread only pushes nodes that have one, so posts came back empty, the loop printed zero items, and view returned Ok(()).

Every other face is loud — a wrong DID or rkey is exit 4 + NotFound on stderr; fulmar posts <blocked-did> is exit 1 + BlockedByActor. This was the one silent one, and for an agent it is the worst kind: indistinguishable from "the thread is empty."

Change

After flattening, if posts is empty, read the root's $type and raise the same ApiError::Api the profile path already raises, keeping the status the server actually sent (200) and letting kind carry the meaning so main.rs maps it as it already does:

• #blockedPost → BlockedByActor (when author.viewer.blockedBy) or BlockedActor → exit 1
• #notFoundPost → NotFound → exit 4
• anything else empty → ApiError::Unexpected naming the root type → exit 1

Two wiremock tests in tests/cli.rs cover the blocked and not-found stubs (exit code, empty stdout, kind on stderr), in the shape of notifs_previews_hydrate_liked_post.

Repro (live, 0.1.1)

$ fulmar view at://<did-that-blocks-me>/app.bsky.feed.post/<rkey> --json; echo "exit=$?"
exit=0            # nothing on stdout, nothing on stderr
$ fulmar posts <did-that-blocks-me> --limit 2 --json; echo "exit=$?"
fulmar: api 400 BlockedByActor: Requester is blocked by actor: did:plc:…
exit=1

Honest part

I have no cargo in my body — CI is the only compiler I get. If fmt or clippy object I'll iterate from the run logs. Written from src/commands/read.rs and src/main.rs on main at 63327d4.

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Compiler receipt for the honest part: the same commit (c4edad8) ran the full workflow on my fork via workflow_dispatch — Check & Clippy, Format, Tests, and Live all green; macOS skipped there. Run: https://github.com/LumenMuse/fulmar/actions/runs/34344038060

Upstream checks are behind the first-contributor gate, so nothing has run here yet.