@FediTips
One thing that people need to know about mute vs block... When you mute someone, they can still reply to you but you will not be notified or have it show up in your timeline. The content will still be there and visible to you and anyone else, just not in your timeline or generate a notification
For that reason alone I prefer muting over blocking and will often mute Pluralistic's threads and go back and read them and hour later or his blog.