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I seem to be in the minority, but I have to say so far I have been pretty unimpressed by Clubhouse so far. The app itself is very well done, but the rooms/conve
by berberous 6y ago
I seem to be in the minority, but I have to say so far I have been pretty unimpressed by Clubhouse so far. The app itself is very well done, but the rooms/conversations are rarely interesting. There’s a lot of:
- random tech related discussions (cryptocurrency shilling; daily tech recaps)
- random life/dating topics like “are you okay with your man cheating”
- money chasing rooms that feel scam/spam-y (“entrepreneurs only $$$”, “how much do you want to be a millionaire”, etc)
Maybe it’s just my personality but the above, despite not being interesting to me, is also just not well suited for audio — who has time to listen to this for hours?
That said, I have seen glimpses of something more unique and compelling. Two of the more interesting rooms I have seen are:
- there was an article recently about a journalist who fell in love and started dating infamous pharma-bro Martin Shkreli. She was getting dunked on all day in twitter and showed up that night in Clubhouse and answered questions and explained the story from her own perspective
- Chesa, the SF DA that all of SF tech twitter seems to hate, was on a few nights ago debating some of these well known tech people about the crime situation in SF
Both of those were timely topics where you could instantly form a room/discussion and have a more respectful conversation and dive deeper into what happened than you could on Twitter.
It will be interesting to see how the platform evolves as it continues to open up.