for your own sanity, use the damn block button.
don’t engage trolls or provocateurs, block them and move on.
if you’re on here you probably don’t like algorithmic feeds, guess what not having one means? The block button actually fucking does something! so use it to moderate your experience.
On the platform formerly known as 🐦, there was the option to completely block a user (mutually invisible), not only muting (invisible for me) them, which avoids this problem.