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Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

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Re: Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

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Post by dd36 »

peytoncasper wrote: post #18
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> FB - nobody really seems to be posting anymore. Insta - two people actively posting on my feed Their actual engagement numbers across the general population are quite good. This sounds more representative of your bubble using different platforms than the general state of the app.

I unfortunately don’t know how the numbers break down. However, I see a lot of people that use Facebook for groups. As a result, I wonder how much of their engagement is driven from people posting inside of various groups that might be private. It might lead to the situation that OP describes where most of the “forum” conversation has died down but it’s thriving in various segments.

Yes. IME, Facebook surfaces group postings over friend postings.

Re: Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

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Post by babesh »

The hype brought in people acting with good intentions that you would otherwise not meet and served as a catalyst to chat with people you lost touch with.

This metastasized into agenda pushing of many forms (complaining about black men, both left and right politics, supposed business networking, etc...) from people wishing to exploit this new venue. This drove away most people.

Other social networks deal with this metastasis via the follow mechanism and good suggestions. Without good versions of these, you are left with a public audio chat to talk about events.

Re: Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

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Post by derangedHorse »

todd3834 wrote: post #24

This was a very well written article on this person’s opinion backed with some, in my opinion, sketchy data points. As I read it, I couldn’t help but to feel a little cringy like reading a gossip magazine. Sorry to be off topic but what motivates someone to write an entire article to prove to everyone that a startup sucks. The very fact that they felt compelled to try to convince people the startup isn’t relevant all…

The motivation for writing this post is the same as the motivation for any post —- it’s an interesting story. It seems like you might be taking offense from a post that’s just trying to analyze a case where the perceived hype, and the underlying assumptions for the reason for the perceived hype, were disassociated from the actual numbers seen during the general release of the app.

Re: Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

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Post by codethief »

tomhoward wrote: post #9

I joined CH in January, and I initially felt the same sense of excitement I felt when I first joined Twitter in early 2008 and started connecting with new, likeminded people. But that excitement died off within about two weeks, once I realised how little really interesting discussion there was. There were some highlights, and I still dip in now and again when a compelling name pops up, but it's mostly pretty uninspir…

> I heard him make the claim that Clubhouse has bigger potential than text-based social platforms, because talking has less friction than writing

Finding people that talk about stuff is one thing, finding people who like to listen to other people talking is the other. Unfortunately, listening has much higher friction than reading.

Re: Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

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Post by gbear605 »

mongol wrote: post #21

How is the blogosphere doing? Is it all about forgotten? Or is it alive and well? I don't follow any blogs, but am very glad that they exist. It seems to me to be the most genuine expression of social media.

I follow hundreds of them and they’re mostly still alive, so my area of the blogosphere at least is.

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Post by dylan604 »

codethief wrote: post #35
tomhoward wrote: post #9

I joined CH in January, and I initially felt the same sense of excitement I felt when I first joined Twitter in early 2008 and started connecting with new, likeminded people. But that excitement died off within about two weeks, once I realised how little really interesting discussion there was. There were some highlights, and I still dip in now and again when a compelling name pops up, but it's mostly pretty uninspir…

> I heard him make the claim that Clubhouse has bigger potential than text-based social platforms, because talking has less friction than writing Finding people that talk about stuff is one thing, finding people who like to listen to other people talking is the other. Unfortunately, listening has much higher friction than reading.

You'd think, but look at the plethora of sports programming of people sitting in a studio talking about sports. Just talking. Very little clips of sports. Just talking. Then, they have the same kind of shows on fantasy sports. Some of these shows are double duty of a radio program, so it's people talking into a microphone so even less need for actual sports footage.

Re: Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about

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Post by imglorp »

I'm curious about the name collision between clubhouse.com, the audio people and clubhouse.io, the project management people.

Was whoever second not aware? Was it not a concern? Is clubhouse.io afraid of getting any misplaced flak from the big security breach at clubhouse.com?

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