I’m blocked by some “popular” npubs, but something I’ve noticed is they still follow me even zap me, reply to me and react to my posts now and again, it has led me to believe that everyone uses the mute feature differently and we must not feel bad or hold grudges about being muted. I like that it’s public though, makes us accountable for our mutes.
Discussion
I’ve learned the same, and I do the same. I mute sometimes because someone is on a rant about something I don’t care about. I’ll unmute them later when they’ve calmed down.
There are lots of reasons. People I really admire have unfollowed then refollowed me. Who knows why. Maybe I was annoying that day.
Not something to get too worked up over imo.