Muting is fine, blocking is censorship.
You'll know it is decentralized when someone can run an instance and remove the blocking and censorship. (Never, I predict)
> In theory, a bad actor could create their own rogue client or interface which ignores some of the blocking behaviors, since the content is posted to a public network. But showing content or notifications to the person who created the block won’t be possible, as that behavior is controlled by their own PDS and client.
>creation of reply posts, quote posts, embeds, and mentions are blocked;
This is the unmitigable censorship that can't be removed without decentralization.
We’re just slamming the door in the face of Nazis and fascists.
It’s my individual right to avoid assholes.
Not censorship.
Bluesky preventing users from replying to your posts on your say-so. Yup, there's a word for that.