From USENET in the mid90s on I have used muting tools. Any client of any platform of any worth has always had them. It's only recently the Empire of Government and Corporate Oligarchs have decided users are too stupid to be be trusted to use them.

/mockingly "Of no! Someone who chooses to use a platform when he doesn't have to and is too stupid to mute or block might get radicalized by 'disinformation' or traumatized by 'hate speech'!"