I'm talking about my experience with Primal. Mutes are not muting, I still see the same in my notifications. Maybe this is by design?
How is it working for you? Do you see likes by muted accounts in your Primal notifications? For example this dollarparity bot?

My lists are my Nostr experience. My follows are mutes are curated for 18 months now and all I want is for the client that I'm using to show me my friends and hide the crap. This is a very basic function, even if I have to manually down- & upload I would do it but it's not available. 
Derek says that's nip51, so it's coming, maybe? To some clients? 

On boarding anyone but nerds like us at this point is pointless. And without greater adoption there will be no organic monetization to relay operators and devs.
I wish to get over this dreaded 'early days' narrative and seize the opportunities this day and age offer to us. With a shared vision and ground up. This ain't the 1970s or 2008, we got better methods of collaboration and monetization these days.