Yeah, I don't get the big deal at all. I self-host a Pleroma instance, it took me about 10 minutes of doc-reading to set it up - similar complexity to the IRC bouncer I set up a while back. And if you don't want to self-host, you just sign up to an existing instance.
The threading mechanics of twitter took me a non-trivial amount of time to get my head around.
The threading mechanics of twitter took me a non-trivial amount of time to get my head around.