Finally, . The users who once meticulously documented events on forums (the "autists" of WallStreetBets or the detectives of r/AskHistorians) are now drowned out by the sheer volume of social media ephemera. They retreat to private Discords, leaving the public square to the algorithms.
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The erosion of the forum format has dire implications for how we process social media news. Finally,