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Well baby boomers & gen-x will struggle to dump mail...I mean it simple and just works.We were trying to get a community of newbie techies mostly millennials & gen-z to actively engage on a list we subscribed them too for the past 2 years and believe me, I can count no more than 10 posts mainly from we few mailing list folk...When we requested for feedback, them gen-z cried out loud for interactions to happen on some social media app through groups or channels, and since they are the target audience and the majority, we settled for discord and telegram which they actively engage on :-).We still maintain the mailing list though and most announcement are done via it but things are changing hey....
I'm a gen-x guy myself, but I've gotten into discord largely as a replacement for IRC as it's declined over the past decade and a half and there are some actual good communities on there at this point. There's actually a very good network engineering discord group, even.
I definitely don't care for web-based forums personally, and like many other folks, I don't even have a facebook account. Email lists are extremely accessible as they don't require any third-party accounts, and there's a lot of transparency in terms of how you'll be exposed - that is, your email address/headers and the content of your messages may end up public, but no one's harvesting all of your web visits via intrusive cookies and such.
- Matt