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Mute

To mute another user is to stop seeing or being alerted to that user's content or activity for yourself on a social media service.

In plain English

This is a personal visibility control. It prevents that user's content or activity from showing up to you and stops alerts about it.

In context

Here, "Mute" means the safety action of stopping another user's content or activity from appearing to you or notifying you.

Situation
Reporting content, appealing decisions, reading restrictions, and using safety controls
What it communicates
safety action for suppressing another user's content or alerts from the user's view.

Meaning limits

By itself, this term does not say what anyone else can see or whether anything changes beyond your own experience.

Examples

“After the arguments started, she muted his account, and his posts and alerts about his activity stopped reaching her.”

Core meaning

“I muted that user last week because seeing every repost and getting notified whenever they commented had become exhausting.”

In context

  • mute (make silent or turn off sound) Alternate Sense

    This reading concerns audio silence, not limiting your own view of a user's content.

  • block Contrast

    Block is a stronger account-level action and is not limited to stopping your own view or alerts.