I find the "mute" button to be one of the most powerful features of this platform, especially combined with the fact that a user cannot directly see whether they are muted or not.

Everyone has their bad moments, so what I do is dedicate a few moments to explore a few posts from a "to-be-muted" candidate and if they turn out to be mostly clickbaits and/or nonsensical attention seekers, well, I need to prune my feed otherwise it will become unreadable junk.