I feel like most if not pretty much all of the value of Twitter was the name itself, and the recognition it had.

Oh, ok, thanks for the correction.

Don’t they have that thing where you can turn your account into a self hosted website? Maybe decentralized wasn’t the best word, I mean users don’t have to rely on the website staying up / moderators not going mad or stuff like that.

literally joined like an hour ago :-/

Just joined, can someone explain?