Why BitcoinTalk forums suck:

--Cloudflare sees your password.  People invest so much time here to own nothing.

--Tor & VPN restrictions (that require payments) for a borderline illegal grey market

--Google Captcha for Tax Evasion & Bitcoin Mixing

--Payments for Ads in Signatures, based on the quantity of posts, leads to low quality spam

--There's no sense of community like Nostr has, just calling each other scams.  And the criteria for not being a scam is having spent a lot of time using this Cloudflare password to spam.

--People don't even trust the escrow moderators.

--Applicants to job ads often have no presence or website besides BitcoinTalk.  Oh you're a web dev with no website?

Anyone who is self-employed should be self-hosting a VPS.  If your only presence on the internet is Cloudflare seeing your password, Gmail, and Telegram... then you're basically homeless.