Forums also let you choose the level of anonymity you wanted, and other people to choose the level of trust that they had in you. I think this feature came from the simplicity of having a purely chronological timeline of posts on a given topic.
Once you have Facebook-style mandates or recommendation algorithms and voting mechanisms (like Youtube and Reddit), that goes out the window. Now, people look for and find the "popular" perspective or the algorithmically-favored perspective instead. By removing the work from the process, they have turned off the critical thinking that was involved.
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Forums also let you choose the level of anonymity you wanted, and other people to choose the level of trust that they had in you. I think this feature came from the simplicity of having a purely chronological timeline of posts on a given topic.
Once you have Facebook-style mandates or recommendation algorithms and voting mechanisms (like Youtube and Reddit), that goes out the window. Now, people look for and find the "popular" perspective or the algorithmically-favored perspective instead. By removing the work from the process, they have turned off the critical thinking that was involved.