Amethyst is aggressive against spam and has a reporting system. This can inadvertently allow for users to get shadow muted across the client either automatically via repeating the same note or via users reporting that user. It's not a perfect system, but it does remove a lot of unwanted spam. Tony submitted a PR to get this feature removed. Vitor closed the request. Tony forked Amethyst and removed that feature and is going to publish a separate client.

In my personal opinion, it's too aggressive and it needs to be tweaked. I think we need spam prevention and don't want it removed all together. I think we could probably find a common ground. 🫂 That said, I don't like finding new users to follow and realize that I have them blocked automatically for me.