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I've just had to block my first troll so I don't know the answer to this question. If you block them do their replies disappear from your replies or can others see them? This was a huge issue on the bird app and made blocking them kinda pointless. Twitter tried to help by letting us hide their replies. It became too much work.

Dirty Hippie

@trcfwtt I had built up a block list of 100,000 tweeps on , and it helped preserve my feed. But of course, that was only useful to me and not so useful to others who didn't have a similar block list. I like your view of blocks assisting with curation though.