# Decentralized lists

Decentralized Blacklists and Mutes lists are tools that can be useful to protect you from unwanted trolls or spammers or to identify users who are trying to abuse the system.

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Decentralized Blacklists and Mutes lists are tools that can be useful to protect you from unwanted trolls or spammers or to identify users who are trying to abuse the system.\
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**Blacklists**

Blacklists allow anyone to construct a set of blacklisted users and allow each user to use one or more blacklists created by others.

Blacklisting an account implies the blacklister thinks the account is doing something wrong and is intended to be used as a way to warn others that he thinks they should be careful when dealing with that account.

With the related steps, we invite you to:

* use the blacklists created by other users
* create your own blacklists and share them with others
* have at least 5 users follow your blacklist.

**Mutes lists**

Mutes lists allow anyone to construct a set of users and allow each user to use one or more mute lists created by others.

Muting an account means one doesn’t want to see the account’s posts and comments. Most frontends honor muting by preventing those posts from being displayed when its users view the site.

With the related steps, we invite you to:

* use the mutes lists created by other users
* create your own mutes lists and share them with others
* have at least 5 users follow your mutes lists.


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