The ability to filter what you see by unfollowing low-value posters is vastly underrated by most readers. This pushes me towards something like Twitter or Mast

The ability to filter what you see by unfollowing low-value posters is vastly underrated by most readers. This pushes me towards something like Twitter or Mastodon. Most people don't like to unfollow people for various reasons – forums have the advantage of (typically) putting culture enforcement in the hands of a group, not on the casual reader.