I'm still making my way through the comments, but this is the first time in this discussion that I've seen this raised. I don't think most folks know that muting doesn't always work.

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.

I think it must be a client feature. Seems to work okay through primal.

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