No one can afford that.

There's a reason why a lot of forums went downhill and got replaced by Reddit... moderating them is a constant effort (and Reddit at least takes over the legally mandated stuff like CSAM, piracy and basic anti-spam), admins are tired of skiddies exploiting phpBB or whatever vulnerabilities the very second they get public, you gotta deal with trolls DDoS'ing you for fun, and also users are lazy because they don't want Yet Another Login (not to mention, Reddit centralizes notifications vs a flooded mailbox). And for blogs, the situation is very similar.

Yep, forums were small when the web was small. Once the web got bigger so did forums and the problems that came with it. After that the spam, hacking, and DDOS just got out of control. The tools for any one individual to make your life hell are just that much better these days.

Forums died all the time back then because the admin got tired of the mess. People these days would be far less tolerant of joining these small groups and pouring time into them, only to have them disappear a few months later.

Except we can't, as evident by the fact that this isn't happening.

So what now, a ban on "mass communication for everyone at scale"? How exactly will that be defined and enforced?