One advantage microblogging has as a medium over chat rooms or forums, is that a discussion can fork off in a range of directions without cluttering up a single, linear channel. Tangential posts can sprout off busy conversations of their own, on different topics, while the original discussion can continue unaffected. That's because clicking on a post allows us to see the posts that led up to it without necessarily seeing every thread that's branched off from it.
fediverse meta - Mute Conversation
The only thing that would improve thread management in fediverse apps would be if Mute Conversation could reliably mute replies only to the post it's applied to. That way we could still silence a whole thread by applying Mute Conversation to the first post at the top of it, but we could also continue to follow some branches of the thread, but not others.
