there's no reason you can't filter privately in the client as well, if you have a client that wants to prioritize privacy. but blocking/muting seems like a rea

there's no reason you can't filter privately in the client as well, if you have a client that wants to prioritize privacy. but blocking/muting seems like a reasonable thing to include in the protocol, for clients that are prioritizing resources and not ingesting more posts than they need to and as a signal for algorithms to determine users who are frequently blocked or muted. for somebody like myself, i'm just some dude nobody cares about. my twitter blocklist was major public figures who i didn't want to see retweets of in my feed. donald trump wasn't going to get angry at me because i blocked him, it's fine if that's included in some public list.