Topic: Advantages of Bitcointalk over social media (Read 1003 times)

Thanks for correcting me and it wasn't 2003 but Feb of 2004. I also forgot Orkut was much popular platform before Facebook and after Facebook was launched Orkut lost its charm and got closed.

Wrong

Facebook existed since 2003 or something if I recall correctly. And there was also MySpace. And AIM!

Generally speaking though, most forums have outlived several of the social media sites which we hear about now. Most were created in the 2010s, whereas most forums were made in the 2000s or even the 90s.

Back then it was much easier to make a forum with say phpBB or SMF or the like than it was to roll your own social platform from scratch. Besides, most people were not interested in doing that, as smartphones had not been invented yet.

Theirs thing's we misunderstood in the forum towards reputation, when you say reputation to members, you're talking about the users that have legacy in forum and can be trusted, reputation doesn't been determined by how long you have stayed in the community of bitcointalk, someone who registered in bitcoin two days ago maybe brilliant about ore
bitcoin than someone who has been in bitcointalk for long time, so someone knowing about bitcoin more than someone who doesn't know much about bitcoin, its doesn't mean that the one that knows bitcoin better is more reputable than the one who has been in the community for years but not brilliant enough to know the secrets behind technologies of bitcoin

Reputation is all about your legacy you showcase to people who is in same environment or community with you. Other points you reference or compare bitcointalk.org with other social media's is cool with me, but on the reputation aspects,  I think their's some little misconceptions there.

The two are not the same and don't fall under the same category.
While social media might be somewhere you go to meet new people, do business and have fun,
The forum is mainly an educational space and don't give much room for fun. Most of the things that goes on here are strictly business related and Bitcointalkforum sure did take it with lots of seriousness.
This becomes of some real advantage as, it’s highly monitored for contents and works within a set of rules as well as, the many benefits already outlined in the OP.

We’re generally in a different era people think differently about social media and I always disagree, social media is not beneficial in terms of learning but I’m also interested in social apps for fun activities nothing much as a means of education etc. Bitcointalk forum can’t be compared with social media mostly in terms of written words, learning, even if we claim to prove some certain points about social media not all are true and it also depends on the kind of activities you view while making use of different social apps. My point of view concerning social pollutions is the kind of freedom displayed meanwhile this forum works differently, the forum was never created for entertainment views that’s why it’s more suitable for everyone.

Both social media and this forum has their cons and pros. Even if I base my judgement on your reply, you will still notice some kind of inconsistency. For instance;

• Are there no people that misinform others here?
• Are there no scammers here?

It all boils down on we knowing what we want, going for it and improving ourselves. But in all, forum is like a certain community with a limited and defined purposes while social media is broader with wider purposes.

The problem is that not a lot of people think like us. Social media is full of visual illusions, and people like that. This forum doesn't have many visualizations; we are more into texts, which is considered traditional by most people these days, unfortunately. They don't know what they are missing out on though, regardless, it is tough to convince people that this forum is instrumental, especially those who are very much into social media platforms.

I have often heard such people saying that they get bored surfing around such forums, which is why they don't like it. Some would even say they get a headache after some time reading all the texts and barely having any visuals to see because they are used to watching videos and images while scrolling down through their Facebook and Instagram feeds.

From where I see it, we could be the first and last generation having interests in things such as this forum. People might like, adopt, and use Bitcoin in the future, but they will barely care about the forum where it all began because for them, it won't be anything more than an investment asset to be used for earning purposes.

I respect people who don't use social media more, I don't know why, even though I don't think about it.
The blessings you can find on the Bitcointalk forum are not even comparable to those on social media, in my opinion.
The information here is great blessings, the ones on social media are platforms full of pollution and bots and nonsensical redirects, so I'm not interested in social media either.

Bitcointalk is not social media rather place more better than social media which every learned person would like to involved themselves with, I can see the usefulness of this forum over social media although there are other benefits which they offers as well but here is more for a normal people instead of a usual reckless people on social media. Since I found myself here i make it hard to come on other social media even if I does I don't waste my previous time over there instead i would come back here to continue reading and also involving myself in some of the discussion which I think I can.

I think the forum is pretty well-moderated if we consider the fact that there are limited mods and we don't have algorithms filtering words and stuff and restricting scams and related stuff because social media platforms mostly work on algorithms, some reports might be handled by humans if they are manually reported but that isn't always the case and this is the reason why scammers and advertisers of shady businesses always find a way to escape or bypass those algorithms and automated systems and still somehow manage to promote their products and services.


You are right about this, people need to have a brain when it comes to scams and frauds because they can't be saved by moderators or filters or algorithms all the time and will need to have some general knowledge and understanding about these things and about what can and cannot be true and right.

I would disagree to this.

Bitcointalk is also full of scams spam and whatnot. Sometimes going to the excessive misinformation from rotten brains because there is little involvement from the administration to prevent it beyond spam, because scams are not moderated. On social media, reports usually get solved quickly, but are also sloppy at times.

I would say that no place is 100% clean, this needs maturity and reasoning from the side of the viewer.

Bitcointalk is a source of legit and reliable information, while this social media is full of unreliable information that will mislead you if you don't take some time researching and studying about the facts. However, this social media is also advantageous if you use it in a positive way, but mostly it's only a place of scams and misleading information from unreliable  sources.

Bitcointalk forum is social media forum certified to produce authenticated informations and providing educative measures across its audiences. Users here can always be confided with benefits of clarities at where one feels doubts or trying to o pave a way at your own quest and definitely with the quality of reputations this forum has attained, the forum is worth better to be google world of its own because informations spread here are legit and any misguiding once are tackled a d trashed. While the outside social medias are more of entertainment and spreading of invalid informations which could be false as well.
That is the uniqueness between the bitcointalk forum and the outside social media.

Definitely true. Social networks, I would add, also talk more about likes and subscribers. Many people know those joyful moments when the number of subscribers and likes on your channel increases. People simply go crazy to please their vanity. Being a celebrity with no restrictions on privacy and showing your life without curtains is a completely distant topic compared to this forum. Therefore, comparing this forum to any other social network is absolutely incomparable.

But come to think of it, is there any need for a comparison and how helpful is the post going to be to users that reads it. Anybody here already has a reason why they're here and just few minutes of participating in the forum either through reading or writing, you'll already know the forum is different from other social platforms out there. You shouldn't be comparing a forum to social media but a forum to a forum. The discussion here are more about educating and informing the audience but on social media you get more of entertaining discussion than educating. In fact if you don't share the educating messages in an entertaining manner you mightn't have any engagement. Social media is all about the clicks and engagement (as the saying goes, do anything for the engagement).

Bitcointalk is also a social media as a forum is a form of social media too that's why I said the comparison isn't making any sense to me. There's more value on Bitcointalk than on other social media or forum and all this is because of the thoughtful members here that put quality over any other things and new recruits are having to accept this belief or go elsewhere.

Thanks so much, I truly appreciate. This is coming when I least expected it, I am glad we have people like you here who encourage newcomers like us to put in our best. As long as I remain in this forum, learning and acquiring new knowledge, I will continue to post and contribute to the forum in a positive way.

The main difference I see while comparing this forum to regular social media platforms is that with this forum, you get information that's related to Bitcoin and other areas that touch on finance only, and because of how it's being regulated such that random posts don't just fly in and out, it's a better option to consider while sourcing for any information about the decentralized system.

In the same way, we have boards and sub-boards and even local boards on the forum, the regular social media also have groups and pages where crypto discussions also go on and if you're lucky enough to join the right group that's being controlled by the right admin, you might see something close to what we have here. The difference that's unique about Bitcointalk.com is that because it's the first and largest cryptocurrency ecosystem, it has built a reputation that's strong and has great admin that is up and doing in ensuring that the forum is as clean as possible and regardless of the new faces that keep joining the forum almost on a regular base, the forum remains the surest source of getting legitimate information about the general Bitcoin ecosystem.

This information is very accurate. I remember when I used to be obsessed with social, laughing at every joke, watching every reels and wasting my time on social media while gaining very little or no new knowledge,  bitcointalk.org has greatly changed my perception about how I view social media. Bitcointalk.org is a forum of knowledge and anyone who is serious would not see the need for visiting  social media platforms except on business grounds.

Social media is flooded with all sort of people with majority of them engaging in spamming, plagiarism and posting of irrelevant contents. Most of these social media enthusiasts can not cope in bitcointalk.org due to strict rules and how organised the forum is as opposed to how social media functions. Thanks OP for breaking this down.

Would love to get Theymos take on r/bitcoin vs the forum,7-8 years ago and as of these days. Feel like both have changed a lot.

The forum is far superior than any social media for learning and asking questions, not even close.

As for naughty words and bullies, not a ton here. We even once had a great philosopher, well known for their poetic bitcoin discourse. Shakespearean esk .:some would even say. Here’s a nicely gathered catalog of some of their best work  -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/poetry-by-tman-5138619 

Privacy can be considered also, I believe social media is also a place you can find all types of content creating just for fun and abusive words as mentioned. It’s obvious people while away their time on social media but, I can’t say same when it comes to the forum, when it comes to forum discussion my first thought is learning, like what’s the center of discussion although anyone can easily differentiate between social media and forum discussions, the rules here also is more strict meanwhile on social media everyone is allowed to post freely with zero value. It’s left for you to understand what’s the difference between correction and bullying because personally I don’t think you’ll experience such fear here.

I love to see posts like this. Thanks for this break down I think its really nice to see folks who appreciate this forum, especially a newcomer like yourself. I gave you a few merits to help bump up your rank I hope that you continue to post and contribute to the forum in a positive way. As you grow and develop I hope that you always keep an open mind to new innovation and post about it! Good luck!

theymos is not a fast implementer of ideas in the forum. If not of recent times that he has begun to implement some suggestions. Before now, ideas appear as if no one reads them. I didn't know if he had the intention of rolling in the new software, which was why he was adamant to suggestions. Now that he has started implementing suggestions, let's assume there's no gonna be new forum software again.

The aspect I respect theymos the most is, creating a system that can go against him. Imagine being tagged by Vod and it's visible to everyone. Most admins wouldn't allow that.

Just as you have said, you either block or etc. the people bullying on social media.
Well,  in as much as you feel it's an issue, some people can't still take it.

Why do you think some people delete all their account details and run from the social platform for a while before they can come back if only you can?

The bullying on some social platforms is alarming. As a content creator, how many people are you going to block from your page? The next thing is dragging, and when you can't stand it, they will frustrate the good person in you. In forums, nobody knows you, so your neighbor can't create a new account just to use it to bully you. 

I don't think bullying works in the realm of whether you are using a forum or a social media platform because you have all the rights and the power to remove anyone from your posts and publications if you don't want to see them around or want them to see your posts, etc.

On social media platforms, you can delete and hide comments, and block users so that they can't see you or participate in any of your next posts. If they create more accounts to repeat the same things only to tease you, you can keep blocking them and that's it. It isn't a lot of work.

On forums such as this one, it's even easier, all you need to do is either make your threads self-moderated so that you can remove posts and comments from trolls and bullies or ignore them so that they don't see your threads.

Both are actually made for people to benefit and socialize, but somehow this social media is obviously well abused by its members, that some shit and unbearable posts are tolerated, one thing that this forum is very much different. If you are member with no discipline and cannot follow simple rules, then you don't belong in the forum, or even in the social media because you'll end influencing other people.

One thing about forums is that they give you space to think and want to come up with something sensible and motivate you sometimes to do research on, like, some social platform.

In forums, there's no bullying, and on other social media, there'll be times you have to be very strong to post even your content because of the amount of bullying there. I love my privacy and believe the forum gives me the room to express myself without being bullied but corrected. 

Apart from that, this forum is clearly different from other social media platforms. Many things take place here that are done in other places. The forum is a learning community, and every member here is here to learn, which is why it is different from other social media platforms.

However, when I also joined the forum, many things I supported about cryptocurrency outside the forum and before I joined the forum were different things here, because here you can ask for help and get it done without wasting your time, not like other social media platforms that are full of cruise; they take everything as a joke, but here in the forum there is no time for that. We are all busing learning new things every day, both crypto and other things.

This forum has historical values ​​that you cannot find on social media. You have a series of problems and discussions that you can express here, You have unlimited freedom in this forum and there are many things you can summarize for yourself, especially about crypto, Bitcoin and so on, that's what's great about forums with social media that you know.

In my understanding, social media is only for entertainment for its users, the Bitcointalk forum is not like that, you are really educated and take your knowledge seriously, forums are not for rocking videos like social media, you are really like a student and lecturer here, your IQ is really drained here to produce good grades in all aspects, so it is very natural and reasonable that forums are superior to social media.

Bitcointalk is a one-of-a-kind forum and I must say that I respect this forum so much, especially for its uniqueness. What you wrote above could be exaggerated though because they are not particularly without fault as you want it to be, nevertheless, Bitcointalk is the forum that is trying its best to outshine others.

One thing I love the most about this forum is that it is better democratised. I've never seen a forum with freehands like this to the point that the admin listens to the plight of people and makes changes based on that and also allows users to govern the forum. It is just the forum of users for the users and I don't think there is another forum that will allow users to have that kind of sense of belonging.

Its also based on algorithm you often used. If you visit some lousy tweet or view such low quality post from users you often have a low quality data feed on your feed unless you have a certain algo or topics frequently using. But yeah Id like more on forum since its organized. Social media sites are normally for image based showcase not for a good discussion hub.

I visited several crypto pages on well-known social networks. There is a lot of confusion going on there. People who are far from understanding teach you what to do and how to do it, advise you to buy one coin without showing its advantages, and so on. Here, as you rightly noted, everything is orderly, and those who have been on the forum for a long time are, for the most part, already familiar with the nicknames of people whose advice and lessons you can listen to, which cannot be said about those networks where people write only for likes.

This forum consists of different information related to crypto and of course the bitcoin itself, you can easily ask a question related to crypto and people answer with the prior facts and opinions we can discuss here with the information we've seen and share so we can identify which is the truth, these days tons of information we can search in the internet and its quite hassle to me personally which one is reliable so if there's other created a thread already its more easier to us to confirm the information if no one else created yet we are freely to create a new topic to discuss.

The advantages of Bitcointalk over social media are too many. First of all, everything is well-sorted here, we have different sections like Bitcoin Discussion, Technical Discussion, Economy, Trading Discussion, Project Development and many other sections, which make it easier for me to find the information that I want. On Facebook and Twitter, you are lost, there are a bunch of posts and tweets, but it's mostly for chit-chat and not for discussion. I like Reddit but still it's not as well-structured as Bitcointalk in terms of sorting and finding discussional threads.
Also, another big benefit that this forum has is that there are many old members who have been here almost since the day of Bitcoin's creation. Here we have default trust members who tag negatively those who try to scam. This forum is a better place in overall.

Bitcoin is a place where everyone come and shared their knowledge to each other, but one thing how like you to understand between Bitcoin and social media is that the social is only made for making money only, their not lean anything or share a knowledge together apart from earned money, but for the Bitcointalk is a platforms which generate alot of money for people's and the same time learning a defferences things from each other's  and that's why I will never compare Bitcointalk to social media; Because there far defference form each other.

Furthermore, let me congrats you by reaching up to this stage you're which is jr member rank, although that it's not easy and is truth, because everyone here as pass through this stage before ranked up to full member, but with the patient and efforts they put in all difficult and the stress they face has turn to a wonderful joyful today, so my advice to you mate is to keep trying your possible best by creating a good contents which will generate you more merits.

That’s one thing why I keep coming back to this forum, the authenticity is present and everyone that engaged comes up with their own personal experiences to justify their comments or explanation. Unlike in social media, we got confused with different ideas that come out with no solid proofs to support their discussion, and you can tell that majority are not genuine posts, something that we always encounter in the forum, all comes with originality and genuine posts.

I see, thanks for this information.

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.

There are many advantage that we can say about this simple online forum, but my focus is only on the purpose of creating this forum. Each user has their own goal in registering an account on this forum, so they will focus more on what they are interested in while developing their abilities in other things. In general, this is a discussion forum, but user motives are different and we will definitely respect each difference wisely. I like how this forum is moderated in such a way, it creates the impression that each user cannot be arbitrary during their stay.

Remember that not everything you read is true, sometimes some users also spread wrong information about something. You have to make your own analysis and ensure that the information you read is correct, so it is highly recommended not to swallow all the information you read at face value. My advice to you, don't put reputation first as why you register an account here. You will be a user in good standing as long as you can make useful contributions to the forum.

Ever since i found about bitcointalk back in 2014 my life honestly changed. I was lost back then and was searching for all kind of stuff. But once i registered on this forum and atart exploring for months things opened up for me in all kinds of ways. Getting my tipster thread up getting sponsorships and all kinds of stuff. I think that this forum helped me back then a lot and i think that there isnt any similar forum that is on this level and that can help you like this one. This forum can help a lot more then social media can and you can tap into some resources that just arent available on social media and people after all of this years still dont know this.

You can have nearly all things in discussions in Bitcointalk forum. Discussions are not only about Bitcoin even the forum name implies it's Bitcoin talk.

Big difference is the forum discussions are in text and in other social media, people use less texts for discussions but I don't say, writing wall of texts in Bitcoin talk will give better discussions.

You are a forum member and can say it is the best but it won't lead to any consensus. People can use this forum or don't use it and are more favorite on social media.

Original contents can be made anywhere, not only in this forum.

Spam posts are more than you think and moderators can not handle all spam posts. They need support from community members to report spam posts but members can not report all spam posts as they have limited time for reading and reporting.

Reading your later points of discussions, you only want to bold the importance of bitcoin talk and try to say it is the best, this is not true. I like this forum but to say it's the best, it is not.

Like you say, advantages of Bitcointalk over social media. What is disadvantage?

As a new comer in the forum, I didn't find here friendly in terms of UI/UX but I continued for some time and understood the level of information that is being shared here. I can attest that I've never seen the level of information shared here anywhere and that is why I have decided to stick around and continue researching in the forum. Most social media platforms are probably for meetups and wider range of advertisement but when it comes to the quality of information, leave it for this forum.

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Thanks
I didn't know that my post is as good as that, I appreciate. I am totally new in this forum and I am very much committed to reading about Bitcoin and knowing about this forum.

Sorry, but every time I see someone post in this kind of format, it always comes to my mind that this post might be AI generated. But upon reading the whole post, it convinces me that you made it by yourself. lol

Anyway, your post is kind of on point but of course, there are many features that Bitcointalk can't do compared to social media especially like number of audience and advertising.

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Soon you'll be Member rank since you have already managed to earn 10 merit. You just need to reach 100 activity (posts) to rank up.

One big advantage the forum has over social media is that Theymos doesn't charge you for every rank you get to or any post you make like the case with X for instance, where Elon musk was reported to have had plans to charge users who posted on the platform. He gave the reason as wanting to combat the proliferation of bots on the space but that seems so crazy for me.
 
The forum has presented many users with the freedom to express themselves without fear of being policed or had their content taken down(as long as it follows the rules of the place, though).
So far, I've not really seen a social space where you can work, meet people and still give and take information about not only Bitcoin but other matters that concerns humans as Bitcointalk and if there is, I doubt it's as well rounded as here is so that alone is an advantage.

You even seem very established since your first post on the forum - so I think it's just a matter of time and consistency for you to post a lot of quality things and get merit for rank up and then signing up for signature campaign. Some beginners often claim to be beginners – but there are also those who aren't really beginners, but sorry - I don't mean to say you are one of them.

OP, you didn't have to summarize all of that stuff--and probably shouldn't have, because it comes across as an attempt to earn merits whilst writing stuff that most members know.  That said, welcome to the forum.  You sound like you're more accustomed to modern social media sites and that bitcointalk looks ancient by comparison.  I'm sure it does, and the look and feel of the forum has changed very little since I registered in 2015. 

Even though Theymos is apparently working on some new forum software, I kinda think he's keeping things the way they are for historical purposes, as everything here looks and functions much like it did when Satoshi was around (that's an assumption on my part, since I was not a member back in 2009).  IMO that's commendable and in fact very cool.

By the way, if you plan on sticking around and making posts with any kind of honesty, be prepared for criticism if not outright hostility at times.  In other words, I hope you have a thick skin on you because some members can be quite prickly.  Best of luck to you, m'man.

In reality, a forum (whatever it may be) is a social network. The difference is in the form of interaction between users, and the associated purposes.

So the difference is not between an apple and a hamburger. Before, it's between an apple and a tomato, both are fruits, but they have quite different uses. 

An obvious difference between the bitcointalk forum and other social media platforms is their purpose for the creation. As the name implies it is created mainly for the promotion and discussion of  bitcoin and, cryptocurrency wholly. Unlike social media platforms where everything goes.

The forum unlike social media takes plagiarism seriously and we have seen how accounts are banned either permanently or temporarily due to plagiarism. But I haven't seen or read where an account was ban on social platforms like FB or X for plagiarism.

Coordination in the forum is very different from any other social platforms I can think of...

There’s very little or zero Woke bull shit on this forum. The rules aren’t too strict, I really don’t like authority. This forum is the most informative source I have ever come across for Bitcoin related information and advice. I’ve met some of the most interesting and nice, friendly people in my lifetime by striking up RL friendships with people from this forum. I have learnt more, extracting more knowledge from fiscal, self sovereign intellectuals here than I did during my years at school.

Social media mostly sucks, I use X for sports news and fast, real time (almost) Bitcoin news. I have Facebook and Instagram but don’t use them much these days. I tapped a lot of ass meeting girls from various online platforms years ago but Bitcointalk.org wins every time over modern day social media.

What are like more about bitcointalk forum when compared to other social media platforms is that it is a place to clear any misinformation and disinformation. Whenever I read about some crypto news, I usually come back here to fact check. I check the accuracy from the comments of most users which helps me to identify what information is a false narrative, a conspiracy theory, or the real information. I do not even need any other source to verify any information because the users here would have verified the credibility of the information sources.

This is a great effort OP, keep it up. I checked your post history and it seems you are putting some efforts in research, keeping improving yourself and a time will come when you will look back at today and smile.

Where I love BTT the most is in terms of discussion. If wrong information is given out, someone will step in immediately to correct and discussion will continue to flow. Some years later you will still find that discussion with ease.

I think that Bitcointalk and social media is too much different things, used for different purpooses and shouldn't be compared. It's like comparing apple and burger.
Your points is good, but I don't agree with few aspects. Like Reputation, I think it's not problem to build reputation on social media. Blue verified badge was quite good indicator until Musk ruined it by making available to buy it.
And community assistance. For example on facebook there is dedicated groups for everything where you can get help. Literally everything, like cooking, repairing car, PC stuff and so on. Though, quality of crypto related groups often is quite low and it's full of scam promoters.

Whatever points you have mentioned might be correct, but I would say that there is a difference between a social media platform and a forum.

A forum is a place for people to exchange knowledge and information, whereas a social media platform is a place for people to communicate and socialize, so there are different use cases hence different rules and regulations.

A person who is fond of social media platforms wouldn't like forums like this one because it isn't as visually appealing as them, you don't see videos that autoplay when you have them on your screen, you don't see a lot of images, all you see is text all around the forum, but people like us love it because we know the essence of this forum and how our time spent here is used for something good while the time spent on social media platforms is usually wasted.

So, there are differences in rules and everything because both platforms have different purposes and they serve them very well in their places.

What I like more about Bitcointalk is that it opens your knowledge and the way you will understand things. Before I joined this forum, I believe almost everything that I see online like social media, YouTube contents and Google searches, but when I joined and become a member on this forum, I saw a lot of mistakes online. If you make mistake on this forum, you will be corrected to edit the OP or your post which is better.

I do not have much activities on social media, especially Meta like Facebook and Instagram. I only make use of Twitter which people on this forum will also be using. This forum is a place of knowledge.

INTRODUCTION:

I was introduced to this platform few weeks ago. The graphics of this place wasn't pleasant to me. I honestly was struggling to get acquainted to this place until I discovered how important (unique) bitcointalk is and the level of information it carries. One of the game changers for me was when I read a thread made by Satoshi himself in this forum, I knew I was at the right place. And again BlackHatCoiner dropped me my first merits (4), this actually did hit me differently, throughout that day, I was joyous.
I decided to make this article to outline ways in which bitcointalk is better than social media in sourcing for information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Please I will need your feedback incase of any misinformation.

1. USERS REPUTATION:
In bitcointalk, users build reputation overtime where the most reputable users are those with years of experience who participate actively in the forum. These reputable users are most likely to give accurate information about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole.
WHILE;
 In social media, reputation is often determined by the numbers of subscriptions or likes, which can be misrepresented as these subscriptions and likes can be manipulated using bots.

2. ORIGINALITY OF RESOURCES:
In bitcointalk, you will read from the original resources and catch the fun in it, such as  I AM HODLING. Also read from the Ann threads of the projects themselves e.g Ethereum thread.
WHILE;
In social media, such originality is often not available.

3. CHECK AGAINST SPAM:
In bitcointalk, there are moderators who check for spam posts, such posts are often  deleted. This responsibility is not left for the moderators alone as other community members also show interest in reporting spam to the moderators.  This keeps the community clean and sane as much as possible.
WHILE;
In social media, spam is rampant because of less moderation and this posses difficulty in filtering posts by quality.

4. COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE:
In bitcointalk, even as a newbie, you will have the chances of getting help from even the most experienced users who could be developers or miners. You can continue to get this help if you remain active and you can even send a direct pm.
WHILE;
In social media, getting direct help for technical problems is always a problem and most times no one is willing to give a solution without requesting for some bucks.

5. EXCELLENT ARRANGEMENT:
In bitcointalk, topics are often arranged perfectly into dedicated boards, sub-boards and threads. Topics which are posted to inappropriate boards or threads are often moved to the appropriate board. This arrangement enhances research and focused reading/learning.
WHILE;
In most social media, there are no such arrangements as there are often general discussions with no dedicated thread for a particular topic.

6. ROBUST ARCHIVES:
This forum has a large data of past threads and posts which dates back to the early days of bitcoin. These archives could be referenced for research purposes.
WHILE;
This is not available in social media. Most social media even references the forum.

CONCLUSION:
This is a great forum for getting information about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I am glad to have been introduced in this forum and I do wish that one day I can become established, knowledgeable and reputable here to contribute immensely here.
Thank you all for reading.


Congratulations to me! I'm now a junior member.