@TranshumanBlues @davidrevoy - Possibly, such a development is part of the fear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Usenet was great before AOL users (and spam) flooded it. I assume that any social medium will automatically collapse and become crap if a certain user base has been reached. It is not the algorithms, it is not the commercial background, and it is not advertisement. It is a social thing.