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That's just not feasible once the fediverse grows more. You're expecting people to memorize hundreds of names/avatar images or else stay in a tiny echochamber in order to know the people. And doesn't address the issue of other people coming in and having to scour numerous threads and comments to follow your "conversation".
Unfortunately, the problem is that it's big, and as reddit shows us, threading won't fix anything.
The fediverse however can grow in decentralized ways so there's smaller more tight-knit communities that know each other instead of megacommunities where everyone is just a molecule of water in the stream
Tell me you didn't grow up using forums without telling me you didn't use forums. There's a reason even discord has added forums back. They work.
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I did grow up with forums. They key though is that communities are much weaker today despite many still having threaded conversations. Back then you'd get to know people because there were few enough people to know. Today when you have a subreddit with millions of users it doesn't matter that there's threads or not because due to sheer volume it's all ephemeral.
Again, tell me you've never been on a large forum without telling me.