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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Muting people that harass you instead of blocking them enable them to just spam libel about you onto your posts, which can have other effects. At least with blocking, they can't just do it on your actual posts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, insane. it lets them see your stuff and also @ you to other people.

smh.