Although Mastodon is the social media thing that feels most like home to me, I’ve been dipping my toe a little into the slightly murky waters of Bluesky and Threads.
One thing that has surprised me is the primitive implementation of the mute feature. I use muting to temporarily make my feed a bit quieter and stop it being dominated by people who are being particularly vociferous. It’s more of a “shush” than a “mute”.
Neither Threads nor Bluesky lets me do that. I can’t just remove someone’s posts for a day and have them start showing up tomorrow, which is pretty much all I want to do. You can mute someone, but you have to manually unmute them to see their posts again. It’s more of a way to quietly unfollow someone without them knowing. Maybe that’s what people want or maybe they’re planning on adding more granular controls.
Oh, and neither has keyword muting yet either. So if you’d like to take a break from hearing about the Cybertruck or whatever, they can’t help you there either.