I never really liked the microblog ecosystem in general, and some of these terrible design ideas are copied by the Twitter clones, such as how a conversation is presented in a way that is not actually in a chronological order making it hard to tell who is responding to what.

It feels like it wasn't intended for actual engagement and discussion. It's made so you can blast your thoughts out into the net and then get the feel good brain chemicals seeing a number next to it go up. We certainly didn't need an entirely new system for that, since there was already plenty of places to say stupid shit and seek validation.