Some things just hurt to watch subconsciously and the feeling you get is numbness.

Unpopular opinion but I think we should have both the block and Mute options that other Federated Activitypub platforms have, mastodon has both blocking and mutes, lemmy only has the mutes but calls them blocking since it doesn’t cut off access to the other party, reason is there are absolutely people who should be cut off from interaction, not just hidden from view.