Muting Keywords, Hashtags, and Accounts
Not every unwanted interaction calls for blocking or unfollowing. Muting lets you quietly filter out specific words, hashtags, or entire accounts so they stop appearing in your feed and comments, without changing your follow relationship and without the other person ever knowing. It's the right tool when you want a calmer, more relevant experience rather than to end contact with someone altogether.
Muting a Keyword, Phrase, or Hashtag
Go to Settings > Privacy > Muted Words and tap Add. Type in the word, phrase, or hashtag you want to filter out, then save it. Whistlr will hide posts, Imprints, and comments containing that term from your Chattr feed, Discover, and comment sections. You can add as many terms as you like, and you can mute variations separately if you want broader coverage, for example muting both a hashtag and the plain word it's based on.
Muting an Account
Open the account's profile, tap the three-dot menu, and select Mute. You can also press and hold any of their posts or comments and choose Mute from the quick-action menu. Muting an account stops their posts and Imprints from appearing in your Flow and Chattr feed and hides their comments on other people's content, but you remain following them, they remain able to follow or message you, and nothing about your connection changes from their side.
Muted Words vs. Muted Accounts
These two tools solve different problems. Muted words work across the whole app and apply to anyone's content, which is useful for filtering out spoilers, topics you find stressful, or recurring spam phrases regardless of who posts them. Muted accounts target one person's content specifically while leaving the rest of your feed untouched. Many people combine both: muting a handful of accounts that post too often about a topic, plus muting the topic's hashtag so any other mention of it is filtered too.
Muting is silent by design. A muted account is never told they've been muted, their posts still appear on their own profile and to their other followers exactly as before, and they can still see your content, comment on your posts, and send you messages unless you've also adjusted your message or privacy settings separately. Muting only changes what shows up in your own feed and comment sections.
- Managing muted words: Visit Settings > Privacy > Muted Words to see your full list, edit an entry, or remove a term you no longer want filtered.
- Managing muted accounts: Visit Settings > Privacy > Muted Accounts to see everyone you've muted and unmute anyone from that list with a single tap.
- Duration options: When you mute an account, you can choose to mute permanently or for a set period such as 24 hours or 7 days, after which the mute lifts automatically.
- Comment-only muting: Some muted terms can be scoped to comments only, which is useful if you don't mind a topic in your main feed but want to avoid it in comment threads.
A healthy feed isn't just about who you follow, it's about what you've decided not to see — muting puts that choice in your hands without forcing you to end a relationship to get there.
If muting an account doesn't feel like enough, for example because the content directed at you feels targeted or repeated rather than just noisy, consider blocking instead, which removes their ability to view your profile or contact you entirely. And if any muted content also violates Whistlr's community guidelines, such as harassment or spam, reporting it separately ensures it's reviewed even after you've muted it from your own view.