it didnt though.  not only did it not stop replyguy, but it'll never work against the same thing or a slightly evolved thing targeting individual pubkeys or groups..

what happened was a combination of big relays finally filtering, the mute lists (yes) and these webs of trust/ paid relays..

clients need fine grain relay controls..  gossip has a relay setting for marking "spam safe" where it will pull more notifications than from a relay that isnt marked.

i was not specifically talking about any one client this is just something i notice over a very long time period.  i used to attempt to block things like replyguy too, on the relay side, the content blocks DO NOT WORK against an evolving bot.  the same thing happens over and over.  sometimes to individuals, sometimes to the wider network.  many will be leaving nostr in the future because of this, they have no control over replies other than just turning on "replies only for follows".  and this is not gonna work cause follows cant grow past 1-2k pubkeys.

mute words is handy, its useful.  but its not a solution.  i hope client devs realize that.