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While removing it is stupid, I also think it's a limited feature. I am blocked by Jason Schreier like many people in gaming culture are. (I didn't even comment on his post, but he did a mass block based on who responded to another person's post because that's the type of person he is) He's a relatively famous gaming journalist so when someone links his messages I can't see them, right?
Well I can, I just open an incognito window, and I still get to see what ever he's posting, because when you aren't logged in you get to see everything.
So in that way Block doesn't really make a lot of sense. Limiting who can interact with you might needed, but limiting who can see what you post doesn't really.
There is still "Mute" which I use much more often to get rid of "Console war" crap, from my feed, but honestly I also just don't use "X" Because in general I haven't found it that useful, and feels like it's always been a massive time waster. If Elon is making other people realize that now, I'd say he's doing a great job in waking up people to the fact that it's always been a pretty shitty social media.