This is a flawed analogy. I can setup my lightning node to block zaps from your pubkey. Is it really “your right” to send something to someone that they don’t want? For what reason?

Is it “your right” to send to a thread when it has been marked “xanny can’t reply to this”. Sure, go do that in another client then. Clients that respect users individual preferences don’t need to show it.

Its not black and white though. damus still allows you to reply to people who have muted you, which I think is fine, a blocking feature could prevent you altogether, but like you said it would be pointless because other clients who don’t implement this could still show it.

I don’t feel like I’m not taking away anything that actually matters. We’re talking about likes that they don’t want and will never see, and it’s opt in. Is this really a hill to die on?