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Personally clubhouse is good at the moment, no brands, no trolls but not sure how long it will last this way
https://ruky.me/2021/03/30/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-sid...
One clubhouse is already too many. Listening to clubhouse is like turning a screen reader on your LinkedIn feed.
Hahhaha
I wrote dozens of these
Technically speaking it's difficult to see if the label 'clone' is justified given that the concept of audio only chat rooms isn't exactly new. The biggest clubhouse 'innovation' might have been to make it an invite only app and thus create a cascade of FOMO in the style of Gibson's 'antimarketing' in Zero History where someone creates the world's most sought after jeans by simply not selling it anywhere.
Technically speaking it's difficult to see if the label 'clone' is justified given that the concept of audio only chat rooms isn't exactly new. The biggest clubhouse 'innovation' might have been to make it an invite only app and thus create a cascade of FOMO in the style of Gibson's 'antimarketing' in Zero History where someone creates the world's most sought after jeans by simply not selling it anywhere.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-to...
A while back I looked into what it would take to make my own clubhouse app to compete.
I found there were already dozens, all with tens of thousands (or more) downloads on the Play store and App store.
One clubhouse is already too many. Listening to clubhouse is like turning a screen reader on your LinkedIn feed.
I'm specifically talking about politics, things like CRT (critical race theory) and it's march through schools, business, and politics. As well as other controversial subjects.
At times they get heated but for the most part people are generally civil and the discussions can be enlightening.
Despite these things, and contrary to my expectations, these voice chats are popular. Recording quality beats a POTS line, but that's the only upside. Maybe it makes everybody feel like they're in their own podcast (their own "pod" as the kids say).
I guess this is the 21st century's version of IRC for casual, low-overhead chat. Nothing simple is ever good enough for non-enthusiasts.
Technically speaking it's difficult to see if the label 'clone' is justified given that the concept of audio only chat rooms isn't exactly new. The biggest clubhouse 'innovation' might have been to make it an invite only app and thus create a cascade of FOMO in the style of Gibson's 'antimarketing' in Zero History where someone creates the world's most sought after jeans by simply not selling it anywhere.
It isn't sticky. Sample size of one: I logged into to Clubhouse for a week, and haven't been back since.
Brevity was what originally made Twitter popular after the first wave of blogging. I don't think the vogue for blowhards talking at length in 'rooms' is going to last long, whether within Clubhouse or any of the other me-too cloned feature additions in other social media platforms.
Podcasts though.
One clubhouse is already too many. Listening to clubhouse is like turning a screen reader on your LinkedIn feed.
On the other hand, while there are a lot of "influencer" rooms, there have been a lot of rooms where discussions I don't see going on anywhere else are happening. I'm specifically talking about politics, things like CRT (critical race theory) and it's march through schools, business, and politics. As well as other controversial subjects. At times they get heated but for the most part people are generally civil and th…
Even so, a lot of discussions still demand good/strict moderation.
And all the other growth hacking and flirting stuff is pretty cringey.