I’ll add another reason why I redirect to it: XCancel is/was a lot faster than X and had IMO a much cleaner UI, especially when reading larger conversations or groups of tweets. I don’t browse X much, but I already have an extension installed to redirect certain sites, so adding a redirect was an easy win. I’ll miss it.
It's a kind of enshittification pattern where a site based on user content closes off more and more access over time.
Xcancel and Nitter are/were easier to work with, afaict.
It's mostly useful if you want to link someone to a post on twitter to people who don't have an twitter account.
It also looks like X requires a Google or Apple account to sign up if you don’t use your phone number. I’m not linking any of that to the X cesspool.
And media often won't play without doing bypass shenanigans (forcing native controls).
The main site won't even let you attempt to search but nitter and xcancel search worked great.
Twitter is basically unusable on the official site without logging in, even though it may not seem that way after a cursory check.