Topic: Advantages of Bitcointalk over social media (Read 370 times)

We had a regular ads space auction but it was discontinued as Theymos prioritized user safety among other things. However, I remember it was said, the forum has enough reserves to be able to run smoothly for many many years. It's also important to note that the forum is not a for profit platform like most social media hence making money isn't the first priority.

Don't try too hard to earn merit and rank up quick. You will be in others ignore lists soon unless you are giving good value from your posts. The post you made did not add any good value but some words and lines to please the readers to send you some merits [that you thought].

Tell that to all those YouTubers/Tiktokers/Instagramers/crypto Twitter influencers etc who are making shit load of money via social media. The only difference is that entry barrier to actually do it is much lower on bitcointalk so even a shitposter can make something.

Thanks for this feedback, but inasmuch social media has lots of distractions which tends to consume people's time alot, focused and determined people still earn from social media just like anyone who is hardworking in this forum.

I think it’s okay to use social media provided that you also have your own limitations set on it. For me, I’ve seen it more as a source of entertainment but never for educational purposes as I know majority of these being shared do not have reliable sources at all. And if ever there are, there’s only rare of them.

Unlike bitcointalk, everything comes from its original author itself except for those who are fond of plagiarism. And what’s good thing also is that bitcointalk shares real life true stories and experiences, that would bring lessons for other members, compared to social media where everything is made to become hyped so that views and subscriptions will be maximize.

You missed one important  point. Bitcointalk offers us the resources to be able to make money. Social media just consumes time which could have been used to earn money.

Thank you so much for your advice. To be honest, this is what I need right now and it came just at the right time. From my last two recent posts, I have already started facing such hostility from some members and this can be discouraging for someone who is working hard to make honest posts. I can't really say I have a thick skin, I am human and every negative comment I get here tends to affect my personal life. Notwithstanding, I plan on sticking around for a very long time, I'll try to work on my emotions.

Thanks so much for your contribution. I wish to edit my post and add your reply to it if only you'll approve it. The fact that we do not have annoying ads and commercials popping up at intervals in this forum is another thing I find interesting about this forum which makes it even more unique than other social media platforms.

But, I'm just curious, how do the moderators of this forum get money to run and maintain the forum since there are no ads and commercials to generate income to the forum?

To be really honest,I realized how vulnerable I was to any crypto space scams after spending a good time in here...I can't help but applaud the admin for managing a place like this up until today.

Sometimes, things don't really get as interesting as it should be from the start; especially when I tried to surf through and, I wasn't able to contribute to a single discussion at all. Braced up after a few deleted post and began constructive criticism - that's exactly how I got to learn!
..and oh, the social media? It's not even compatible!

I have just seen someone like me, I don't use twitter and I also do not use Instagram and I don't have a tiktok account. I only have a facebook account which I don't visit frequently. I am very ok with the forum. Although, sometimes here feel boring but I have a way to deal with it. That is reading older threads.

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Congratulations to you!
It is not difficult to reach a jr member rank, but many people wouldn't know how special it is to you. I have been there and I know the feelings. Keep pushing!

What is clear is that there are more obvious differences between social media and this forum:
- This is more specific and is indeed specific to the cryptocurrency world. So yes, we can get various norms regarding cryptocurrency that are more specific, updated, and discussions between memes here are more connected.

Meanwhile, if I look at social media, most of them are just more focused on promotion. We can find various promotions related to new projects and there are indeed many social media accounts whose purpose is for this, including people who make money from promotions and free programs with prizes. But unfortunately, there are a lot of scams on social media, in my opinion there are far more, unfortunately also, there is no control or ability for people to declare if they are scams and give them a bad reputation. Yes, because social media is freer for anyone to be there.

Meanwhile in this forum, just look, if there is a projection of scams, then the members here immediately give a reputation for scam accusations and various things that make us much more aware of various types of scams. Not only that, there is a lot of information and also sharing stories or news related to crypto, good and bad, which makes us more aware of crypto itself and what we will do next. Then, what's different is that we can discuss more specifically here, with more controlled language and more significant discussion, which is very different from on social media.

Social media this days are also used as a platform to share knowledge. It has crossed beyond just socialising and communicating. But the most case use of it still remains in the sector of socialising and communicating. It is now at your own peril to believe in whatever you come across on social media either to accept it or not. When you get more familiar with those social platforms, you can easily see and know the authentic and fake news.

The forum has now come in a more authentic form. It easily filter out the fake news and misleading ones and only trail on those that are genuine. The main aim of this is not to deviate from its purpose of sharing the right and truthful information about bitcoin ecosystem. When there is changes in them, they become very fake not to be shared in the forum. As this forum is a place of knowledge like school, fake news shouldn’t be tolerated and this is one big advantage the forum has over social media.

BTW, OP, just thought about one Bitcointalk advantage against social media websites. This forum is clean from ads anfd it's really big thing. While most of social media websites is full of annoying ads, probably there is more commercials than actual content.

Maybe such comparison sounds better. Personally, I don't consider forums as social media website, I see it as message board, but in general yeah

The honest truth is that being a member of this bitcointalk forum is a one privilege of which it will Optimize your mindset to stay focus on what you're doing and most especially researching before agreeing to whatever being speculated.
The social media isn't a trusted place and being in this platform will make you understand that most informations from the medias are incorrect because the media aids understands that what the masses are more interested about is to hear what they expected and not the reality which its truth maybe bitter,
That's why bitcoin as a reputable Cryptocurrency and it users doesn't believe on hyping the technology development In other to gain massive adoptors nor to gain values.

I agree you know. X (Twitter) or whatever you want to call it is a total spam fest. I dunno about general stuff but Bitcoin related tweets are full of bots. Elon said he would deal with the bots, he hasn’t done a great job of it so far.

I really should delete my Facebook too really, Cuckerberg’s spyware and lots of people I don’t have much to do with any more. Maybe 20% of the ‘friends’ I have on there I even see any more.

Hope you’re good any way, long time no speak.

The advantage of Bitcointalk over social media is subjective to individual choices, as members of this forum will see her merits over Social Media so also some persons that use Social media platforms creatively will also give there own opinions, the difference is in what is shared, Opinions, Knowledge and values. Personally Bitcointalk have helped me with a diverse knowledge on Bitcoin and related Topics under it aside this I also learnt some other things aside the forum which both have shaped me greatly. In essence this comparison is not worth it.

Nice one OP for your creative writing.

I don’t use any social media at all. People say this forum is a spamfest but they probably haven’t seen twitter. Twitter is almost 90% bot fest. I read posts in twitter because people share twitter links a lot. I don’t post anything on twitter and I don’t read anything there in my free time. I deleted my facebook long time ago and never used Instagram. The forum used to be a better place of course but it is still far better than any social media crap out there.

Who needs social media when you have bitcointalk?

The drama that was present in this forum a few years back when flag system was not there and DT was full power, its not worth digging those up. But truly speaking, the control over scams was iron-fisted at that time. It is way more than what you see on social media.

Most of us here are aware about privacy and prefer not to use social media, so this "idea" is a bit of a circle jerk.

The average population on this world, will use social media more than a forum. Its like asking the questions "bitcoin is better than traditional assets" and then getting 99% yes response on this forum.

Timeline of social media has more information to prove that pakhitheboss was wrong.

It is like you said, and honestly I can understand why people addicted to Facebook, Youtube because they have many long stories and videos to read / watch, that can make them more addictive and maybe they learn something from such resources.

With TikTok, very short videos and many non sense short videos there, but the younger generations tend to love TikTok. They wasted many times for time, on the screen, for fun, but nearly won't learn anything helpful. It is best way to kill their precious time and destroy their career / future.

That's not true as before bitcointalk there were Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube etc.


What's happening to bitcointalk happened to basically all the other forums-younger generations are drawned more to faster means of communication which then made forums less popular and that's the trend that has been going on for atleast a decade.

Bitcointalk started before social media came into existence. At that time when I was not part of the community this forum was the only place to discuss about anything related to Bitcoin.

As social media gained importance, at that time social media meant Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. They all gained a lot of users who were nothing but the users of this forum. These platforms created a replica of the forum which was far much easier to use and did not need BB code understanding. 

Bitcointalk lost that charm when these social media platforms came into existence, where everyone discussed Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. To an extent, Bitcointalk has now become a forum where discussions are set to current affairs or promotions.

There was a time when anyone could find good tutorials related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency here. As of now, you would not find them or updated as most of the publishers have either retired, died, or have moved to Reddit.

OP! rethink about this forum and come up with a new topic.