Blocking, muting, and hiding

Three tools, in order of strength. Reach for the lightest one that solves the problem.

Which one to use#

Muting and hiding shape your feed. Blocking changes what somebody can do.

Hiding a post#

More options on any post (Feed options in the app) offers Hide this and Not interested. Hiding removes that post; not interested tells ranking you want less like it. Neither tells anyone anything.

Muting#

Muting an account stops its activity reaching your feed. Mute someone with Mute on their profile, or with Mute name in a post's options. You can still open their profile, they can still see and reply to you, and they are not told.

Mute a Space the same way, from a post's options, to stop that Space's activity reaching your feed without leaving or unfollowing it.

Muting is not a notification setting. To quieten a Space's notifications instead, see per-Space notifications, and to silence a single conversation use Mute conversation in chat.

Blocking#

Blocking is the strong one. Once you block someone:

• neither of you sees the other's content;
• they cannot follow you, message you, or interact with your posts;
• any existing follow relationship ends;
• you leave the group chats you shared with them.

An existing direct-message history stays available to both of you, but it is read-only while the block remains. Neither person can pin messages or see new read receipts from that conversation. Your private conversation-list controls, such as Pin conversation and Mute conversation, still work.

Large shared-chat clean-up finishes in the background, so a conversation may take a moment to disappear from the list.

A block always wins. A privacy exception that would otherwise let somebody see something cannot reopen anything for an account you have blocked; see Exceptions for specific people.

Nobody is told that you blocked them, but the block is not invisible in effect: somebody who tries to open your profile or message you will notice.

Undoing any of them#

• On the web, Settings → Blocked & muted has a tab for each list: Blocked, Muted people, Muted words (the words you filter out of your feed; see Your privacy and your data), Hidden posts and Muted Spaces. More hidden lists opens the posts you marked not interested and the people you muted from your feed.
• In the app, Blocked & muted is one row in your settings with three segments — Blocked, Muted and Words. Hidden & muted content, under More settings, holds the hidden posts, the not-interested marks, the muted Spaces and people, and your muted words.

Every row has the action to put it back — Unblock, Unmute, Unhide or Undo, depending on the list. An account that has blocked you back is listed without its name, handle or picture, the same way its profile stops being reachable; the row stays, so undoing it still works.

Unblocking does not restore a follow relationship, or put you back in a group chat. It only stops the block.

Blocking is not reporting#

Blocking protects you. It does not tell moderators anything, and nothing is reviewed because of it.

If a rule was broken, report it as well — the two work together, and a report plus a block is the right response to harassment. See Reporting content and getting help.