Meaning of soft-block | Babel Free

Definitions

To block (a user) on social media and then immediately unblock them, so that the user will (perhaps unknowingly) no longer follow or engage with the blocking user's posts.

Internet, transitive

Examples

“Softblocking is not a built-in function, but a strategy. There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute.”

CEFR level