Mute means no moderators anymore, all will be able to see all and will have to do its own moderation with muting.<p>This is perfectly coherent with the advocate of free speach who is Mr. E. Musk.<p>But that comes with a price, like everything about digital freedom and freedom in general:<p>The power of "blocking" users in a thread from the originator will be removed: expect people losing such power to whine and fight it. It is good as a swarm of coordinated "others" won't be able to downvote anybody too.<p>Children and young teens would get the heat of the nasty posts since now users would have to mute other themselves. This is a parenting issue: yound teens must be 'ready' and probably helped at the beginning to handle the toxicity you can find on internet (this is a danger in life, like drugs, alcohol, etc).<p>With anonymous and public access: no muting, you have to deal full frontal with the toxic posts.