Nostr Web Client

The Mute feature: A user's freedom tool.

What is muting on Nostr?

Different clients will refer to this as muting or blocking, but the end result is the same. It's a personal content filter, allowing the user to regain their personal freedoms. If you don't want to see a user or a user's content, you can mute or block them. It's highly effective. The best part? The freedoms of the person that was muted or blocked are not impacted at all! They have the freedom and ability to continue to post, reply, and carry on just as they previously were doing. Win/win. This is the freedom to communicate that Nostr empowers us with.

Enjoy!

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Discussion

cuban 2y ago

Quite useful on global and for spammers

Evan 2y ago

Mute > Block

Derek Ross 2y ago

They are essentially the same thing on Nostr.

royaoid 2y ago

block is not the right description but app stores forced iris and damus to call it block, we could have a surpress notifications option which is really mute

Jon Hodl 2y ago

Vivi Nella Verita 2y ago

That is not enough for Twitter users. They will only want Mass Relay-blocking like Mastodon

umu 2y ago

freedom of cum does not mean freedom from consequences tbh

Disturbia 2y ago

Nice feature without actually interfering other peoples freedom

Shire 2y ago

Good. People need to do this because I don't like the idea of block lists that are passed around amongst relays.

Derek Ross 2y ago

I don't think a mute/block list passed around relays is good, but I don't see any harm in a public mute/block list on someone's profile, similar to follow lists. In fact, I think making blocks and mutes public is key. It's very transparent.

Shire 2y ago

Yeah. I can imagine a block list being like how I was banned from Twitter with no recourse because no human will bother to even review the situation.

My wife was banned for JOKING to stab me in my sleep for posting a boob meme, and then a month later when she logged into my account on her phone I was banned under the evading suspension policy.

Multiple attempts to explain, but I just got the same for response. A block list would be the same on big relays. No man power or motivation to look into the justness of any decision.