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Because microblogging is about shouting into the void and threaded fora are about conversation.
This is it. It's the same as Reddit being better than Twitter for conversation.
But this is also why Kbin is the best technology, combining both platforms.
Yep. I've been here for one day and I'm already talking in conversations. Took me two weeks to get anywhere on Mastodon. (And exactly the same on Reddit and Twitter before... the incidents.)
Twitter doing this was by design, while Mastodon doesn't tend to shadow ban. I might make my guesses about why, but I don't know the actual complete reasoning as to why it seems to be better for discusion on Lemmy.
I think it's not even about shadowbanning, I think it's about Twitter not giving you anything to interact with (a discovery mechanism). Reddit/Lemmy has a list of subreddits/communities that have a clear focus, so you can jump right in and engage. Neither Twitter nor Mastodon have that. There, you need to find people who generally post/share things that interest you, but that's a lot more difficult.