* µopt: only do one allocation here

* just check if preferences is a key of the prefs obj

i think json.Unmarshal can give u a non-nil guy here and checking for
nil or empty is kinda cringe so let's just do this

currently if you haven't putPreferences at all you break social-app,
since it expects response.preferences to always be present

in a repo with no records, the collections field here ends up being the
nil slice instead of an empty slice, so you get null in the response.

since collections is a required field in the rpc def we shouldn't do this,
it breaks pdsls at least.

Co-authored-by: hailey <hailey@blueskyweb.xyz>

* deleteRecord

* tweak

* fixes