@FediTips yeah, that's how I use it

Also, for it to be in your notifications section, you have to have interacted with the conversation first.

The case I'm talking about is:

Say @FediTips writes a (perfectly fine) toot that I don't really care to see for whatever reason. It talks about something I find annoying or triggering or idk, whatever. But the toot goes viral and that and replies to that keeps getting boosted back into my timeline. So I want the conversation to not be on my timeline anymore, but I don't want to comment on the conversation and then have people see I made some inane post just so I could mute it all.

@sodiboo

@FediTips @sodiboo sure - or wordsmith it to be more clear. Whatever, just wanted to share a pro tip

A lesser known Mastodon pro tip:

Want to mute a conversation, but the mute conversation button isn't appearing on the post?

The only way you can mute a conversation is on a post you have made in the conversation.

But the secret part - Say you want to mute it without actually participating in the conversation:

Reply to a post, set the visibility to "Private Mention", remove everyone's username from the post. Post it.

Then you can click "mute conversation" on THAT post, and it silently mutes you from the conversation.