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

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

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