this feels like an example of performative FOSS
edit: I can’t even log into my twitter account to follow accounts. This means I’m just copy/pasting into the twitter app again anyway, defeating the purpose
edit 2: every nitter page will reopen in twitter if you click the tiny twitter icon in the upper right corner. Thanks @brainwormfarmer for the tip.
it's for browsing twitter without having a twitter account and it serves its purpose well. I manually change twitter links to nitter so I don't have to deal with twitter blasting login popups and disallowing me from clicking to another tweet entirely