Are there any credible estimates for Clubhouse’s remaining runway?
Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
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#62Galloway and Swisher pegged Clubhouse correctly months ago on their podcast, saying it’s a feature not a platform. All the actual platforms are just cloning it.
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#63Not just clubhouse. I get the impression that a few of the major apps are dying. FB - nobody really seems to be posting anymore. Insta - two people actively posting on my feed (I think, hard to tell under all the ads pretending to be posts). Twitter and tiktok appear to be holding their own though. Seen more "delete twitter" sentiment lately though
> 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.
Facebook is now for old people; but I think that’s fine, honestly. The old people now are quite tech savvy, people that are now grandparents already have quite good grip on computers.
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#64They didn’t iterate fast enough. Nothing to do while listening, at least now you can dm but it needed chat a long time ago.
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#65The thing that you notice almost immediately is that the vast majority of people suck at the medium of Clubhouse. It’s like scrolling through an endless list of the worst podcasts in the world.
> It’s like scrolling through an endless list of the worst podcasts in the world.
And from my experience those were some of the better results, second place goes to "how to get rich quick" (and similar) encounters that just gave me the feeling of walking through some pyramid scheme/scam convention buried in tons and tons of emojis.
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#66So what you need to do is take each of these talkers and load their transcripts into a GPT3 model and then let people "talk" with that model.
Call it GPP(tm) and see if anyone gets the reference. For giggles, expand the context length to 4096 tokens and it will even have a better "memory." Now store that context for each ongoing conversation. CH could soon stand for Chatbot Heaven.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...
I think the appeal of clubhouse was its exclusivity and that we were all in lockdown craving contact and its time of release.That's mostly over now despite the Delta variant taking this into extra innings so who needs this thing? It's just another social network now.
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#67I enjoyed the Clubhouse for a week. There were very dense and valuable conversations in certain segments. However, it quickly became the case for changing the saying “marketers ruin everything” to “marketers ruin everything really really fast”
What did "marketers" do to actually ruin everything? Why can't people just accept the fact that it was just hyped up by some people with a lot of media exposure at the right time: namely when Robinhood VS /r/wallstreetbets was kicking in and people got access to a bit of backstage/roasting, and everyone wanted to be part of it with the whole exclusive invites deal. People felt like they were special because they had…
One might argue this was their “viral” marketing strategy and hence may deserve some blame for ruining things. Large VC shops are basically marketing engines for their portfolio companies.
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#68How 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.
Substack is the new rage now.
I don’t really understand why - it’s just a blog with mailing list! - but maybe the addition of payments make it work.
I have to say I really enjoy Substack as a platform. But I thought that about Medium few years ago, and now I actively avoid Medium articles. So, whatever.
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#69I got invited a bunch. Never accepted because Clubhose on Android didn't exist. Android is the daily driver. I only use my iPhone to click on OK in the Apple developer app... and occasionally to do Facetime. I guess they launched on Android in May... I haven't seen an invite in a few months, so I assumed that ignoring Clubhouse is probably a safe bet.
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#70I've been having fun with Clubhouse, spent the last 3 weeks integrating it with GPT-3 and Google Speech.
https://github.com/thomasdavis/omega
Writing a blog post at the moment to post on HN this week.