I wonder how many people have blocked or muted me here. As far as I'm aware, there is no way of finding out.

I know of three users who have blocked me, but there could be many more. Two of those announced they were going to do so, while I discovered the other block myself.People don't say if they are muting you, so I could be silenced by hundreds! Somebody suggested they were using hashtags to mute my Kpop posts; that's fine with me, as I have no desire to clutter timelines with unwanted material.

I do very little blocking and muting myself. I have blocked and reported a handful of users whose posts were blatantly racist or antisemitic. I also had to do the same to a user who posted what appeared to be child pornography. Generally, however, I try to be as open minded as possible; I don't think it's good for me to hide away from stuff I disagree with or dislike.

I have muted a few* users whose posting threatened to overwhelm my timeline. I feel a little bad about that, because they are probably nice people who are unaware that I have chosen to put their passions aside.

Do others block and mute more than I do?

*EDIT More than " a few" -- 29, in fact, when I looked earlier today to see how many I had muted. So perhaps I'm not as open minded as I thought!

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Block #Muting #Mute

@debby @DroidPort personally, I think the "optics" of leaving the #Fediverse are more important and are seen as silent confirmation of valid criticism.

Cuz even if I'd be annoying the shit out of @protonprivacy (and I doubt that!) there are ample of tools for them like #muting and #blocking.

• Tools they'd inevitably have to use anywhere else too, regardless if #Shitter, #BrownSky, #NSAbook, etc. even if it's just to do #moderation as in reporting & blocking #Shitcoin-#Scammers and #bots pushing #phishing linksvunder their posts...

I kind of think that not putting content warnings on very violent stuff and then going 'it's our duty to look at these images' is not very productive here.

I mean, it's pretty easy to mute or block you if people don't feel the same way. Then none of your posts will get seen. At some point you might get server blocks or similar.

Also, it's not mandatory for me to read anybody's posts. Even if I mostly like what you post.

#meta #blocking #muting

Over the top reactions to routine stuff get muted.

#muting #reactions #SelfCare

@ZDL

Thank you. I'm honoured to be on your unmuted list!

#SocialMedia #Muting #Tags

Periodic PSA: If you have for habit of boosting all the things, you run the risk of getting your boosts muted.

I'm trying to keep the signal-to-noise ratio under control.

#PSA #boosts #muting

I'm muting folks over the above behavior. Either they have muted *me* and do not know of my policy, or they just flat out don't care.

#muting

If you don't want to see me naked don't look in my window.

#Blocking #Muting #Unfollowing

So yeah... Someone was posting too much stuff. My timeline was overwhelmed by them, and the message of their posts was about the same.

I muted them.

And Mastodon noticeably took time to re-filter my timeline.

That's proof that I was not just being a curmudgeon.

#timeline #muting #Mastodon

“The unbearable lightness of being” #SocialMedia is increasingly enabled by the power of #muting. In my opinion, it is more unobtrusive than #blocking. #Mute #Block

I'm starting to see people on #bluesky now saying, they enjoy #blocking people and #muting them. And I also seeing people moan when people they don't follow them reply. That seems like a really bad sign to me. If people don't want #conversation then there seems no point in #socialmedia at all.

Quite possibly, I think the role of #TheForge should not be underestimated. I felt I could control what I came across better on old #Twitter. A lot of things here are very sobering. I can't stand being bombarded with half-jokes & sick political crap any more. I’m #muting like mad right now, but..

I'm not going to lie: automatically expiring mutes are how I've managed to keep several people in my feed.

Don't get me wrong, I like reading what these people post. Most of the time. But sometimes they overwhelm my timeline, and I need a break. The ability to mute these accounts for a couple hours is why I can keep them around. If I couldn't do that I'd have to drop them.

Great feature!

#mastodonfeatures #mutingismagical #mutingfollowers #muting #mute

How bad a person am I?

My native #language is English. I tried learning foreign languages in school, but my brain hated it. (conversely I'm very good at computer languages). So I can't read other languages. Other people post their in their native languages and it shows up on my feed. To curate my feed I've been #muting people who post in languages I don't read. How bad a person am I for doing this?

In no way am I upset that people are posting in other languages.

Kamala Harris’s campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu on Wednesday
💥mocked Donald Trump over the #microphone #muting issue at the upcoming presidential debate,
saying his own team
⚠️ “wants to shut him up.”

“You know, I find it so interesting that what we’re fighting about is the fact that 🔥his own team wants to shut him up,”
Landrieu said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I don’t know if I’ve ever heard that before in the debates and the rules of the debates.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4852183-harris-campaign-mocks-trump-over-muted-mic-debate-his-own-team-wants-to-shut-him-up/

#Mastodon should not show #reply counts that include replies from people I've #muted. When I see that and I don't see the #replies I can't stop myself from opening it in incognito which just defeats the purpose of #muting!

#socialMedia #fediverse #featureRequest

PSA: Link shorteners are not needed in the fediverse.

If you regularly use link shorteners, I'm muting you.

"But I'm on a instance that requires me to... [some excuses.]"

Move to a sane instance.

Have a nice day.

#PSA #LinkShorteners #fediverse #muting

Im exploring using #lists in #fedilab - moving #rss and #media to lists and #muting for home. A question - Can you pick up a list where you last got to like you can with #home? - If so how?

I'm starting to mute the boosts of people I don't want to mute the boosts of.

#SelfCare #MentalHealth #muting #boosts #MutingBoosts