I think the clients usually pull everything from the relay and then hide stuff from mutes, but they should probably only pull metadata from mutes (like npub, username, relays), not notes, reactions, zaps, etc. Then you could find someone, to unmute them, without their stuff showing up embedded in other people's quotes/reposts/replies or in notifications.

you guys have been using shitty clients lol mute works really well on @npub1n0st...k6h0 you cant even unmute until @Fabian fixed that recently 😂