It makes a lot of sense because those proxies disarm the privacy invasion done by twitter. It's not just about its owner. I personally have never used an account even before musk.

It's not about principle. At least not for me, I don't really have principles when dealing with big business anyway. They certainly don't when dealing with me.

I don't just do this with Twitter but with a whole lot of other services too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287271

I'm not running my own nitter because I don't really care about X enough. Probably use it once a month if not less.