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Muting and blocking are really important tools on Mastodon. Mutes hide someone from you without them knowing, whereas blocks totally cut off contact with an account and prevent interactions.
To mute or block someone, go to one of their posts or their profile page and click ⋯, then select "Mute" or "Block".
I've done a guide all about mutes and blocks on Mastodon which answers lots of questions:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-on-the-fediverse
If I've missed something, let me know! 🙂
Is there a way to mute a domain instead of blocking? I feel like blocking is too harsh of an option to put on an instance just for me to simply not see any posts that tend to come out of it.
"From the muted person’s point of view, everything will seem normal."
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The muted person may interact with my toots in a way that they can reasonably expect I might answer, but I won't be seeing this and hence won't answer.
Related: A muted person might add an argument to a debate I read that I would want to counter. I won't be able to do that, as I'm not seeing that argument.
I hesitate to mute, as I'm afraid of the risk of social awkwardness.
It's totally up to you if you use the mute option, it's just there for people who don't want to see a person's posts and replies 🙂
@FediTips Maybe worth mentioning: Muting/blocking an account or server doesn't seem to hide posts quoting their posts.
@FediTips nothing prevent somone from creating alts though
Yeah, they could do that on any platform I guess.
But it would be a pain for them, more friction, makes them less likely to bother. Also it would be block evasion which would get their alt suspended on many servers. They'd have to find a server that is sympathetic to block-evading abusers (and many admins would defederate such servers).
@FediTips I'm more into suspending people. 😉
Yeah, admins have special superpowers 😁
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