ok, that's ok.
if I block them and they can see me. no big. f'm. I still may want to option to see the specific reply without having to go to their profile, unblock, then go back and find the note, ...
I think a better method would be "Show the whole thread", then you can freely read without changing who is blocked, then blocking again. The feature would basically ignore your block list for those notes. No need to hide it again either, but I assume most would expect it to be a toggle control.
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