Hear me out though: dynamic mute lists with totally customizable parameters, like mute if user posts more than x amount of times within x timeframe, if they use certain words, phrases, or hashtags, or if x amount of your following or followers list has muted them.

With the massive bandwidth usage issues, plus issues of finding coherence in feeds, shouldn’t we be heralding every effective possibility to reduce bandwidth and increase coherence?

If you’ve ever used antisocial media, you’ve implicitly used an automated block / mute / derank / boost list, designed to glorify and promote psychopathy. We can still use those tools except for empathy and group coherence instead.