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Clubhouse clones are coming

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Re: Clubhouse clones are coming

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Post by tomcooks »

telesilla wrote: post #21
readflaggedcomm wrote: post #17

Mumble's been available on Android and iOS for years. These upstarts don't all have network effects going for them. Traditionally, conference calls were something we all avoided. 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 ki…

Exactly, I was wondering why free conference.com which has been around for years , or something like it, couldn't just whitelabel itself and boom, a million easy competitors.

Because tech illiterates + iPhone imaginary elite club (green/blue bubbles effect) + startup money + good PR

The usual 4 things FOSS usually doesn't have

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Post by dannyr »

SilverRed wrote: post #30
88840-8855 wrote: post #24

I don't like that app. It's trying so hard do be cool and different. The invite only created an artificial hype, i don't like that. I got it to see how it was - and removed it as soon as i saw how it was: EVERYBODY talks, nobody listens.

>EVERYBODY talks, nobody listens. This is how I feel about any voice chat that extends over 5 other people being in it. I usually just leave because its too busy.

Same. I think most people on Clubhouse just rambles for minutes.

I don't think audience participation in a talk has much value. But when you remove audience participation, Clubhouse is just basically a podcast that is not recorded.

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

My impression is that Clubhouse makes people feel like they're part of a special privileged group by artifically and arbitrarily restricting access to a small number of dedicated (if not outright sycophantic) listeners.

It's ultimately a system which benefits highly privileged people who have a lot of free time and flexibility while excluding people with more restrictive schedules.

Digital media can be consumed at any time and in any way you chose, while this seems like it's reverting to the terrible legacy model.

The true master grifter has this outstanding ability to transform the simplest of ideas from a 2 minute explanation into a 20 minute diatribe. One must really love the sound of their own voice in order to spend so much time yaking on endlessly without saying anything of substance.

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Post by londons_explore »

tomcooks wrote: post #39
Barrin92 wrote: post #7

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.

Gmail was invite only and I believe the first example of such practice to create hype

When in reality it was invite only because Bob down in the data center couldn't wheel in hard drives and network switches quick enough..

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Post by watwut »

themolecularman wrote: post #16
reidjs wrote: post #5

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…

You mean the theory that is now made illegal to be taught? There are literally laws to make critical theory illegal for schools.

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Post by yunohn »

reidjs wrote: post #5

One clubhouse is already too many. Listening to clubhouse is like turning a screen reader on your LinkedIn feed.

> turning a screen reader on your LinkedIn feed

This is an incredibly accurate representation of Clubhouse.

Re: Clubhouse clones are coming

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Post by Aeolun »

Good. I still haven’t received an invite after 3 months, and I’m getting a bit tired of waiting.

Don’t even know if it would be worth the wait, but based on the comments here I shouldn’t be holding my breath.

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