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First time I went on Clubhouse, first got in a room with some Silicon Valley types talking about how to grow your startup. I get enough of that content so left
by harryf 6y ago
First time I went on Clubhouse, first got in a room with some Silicon Valley types talking about how to grow your startup. I get enough of that content so left to explore further and found a room with some African Americans discussing the best way to "snort crack from a booty hole". Perhaps it's my sense of humour but I laughed my head off and was immediately hooked. Felt like the Internet of the "good old days". Also I'm comfortable talking on voice from doing a podcast. Actually I usually hook up my Rødecaster Pro for better quality audio.
Some random tips I've found make Clubhouse more entertaining...
- Follow lots of people - don't be like Twitter, Instagram etc. trying to have more followers than follows. The more people you follow, the more diverse your room suggestions become
- From the home screen of the app, scroll down and find the little "Explore" button ... this will take you to more rooms. Smaller rooms tend to be lower down
- If you want to get involved in a discussion, go to the smaller rooms
- Can be interesting to tap on the profile of who "Nominated" someone... and keep tapping until you get to the center of the graph. This is an interesting take on social graphs I think (which I'm guessing they will disable)
- Most of all, get out of your comfort zone, when it comes to your normal interests / ethnicity etc. It's very low friction to talk to anyone and people are largely polite. It's a great to get to know groups of people you'd otherwise avoid and get new perspectives.
If you want to connect hit me up on @harryfcks in the app.
- scotuswroteus 6y agonot sure why their race matters
- harryf 6y agoIt doesn’t it’s just that for me, living in Zürich Switzerland, it’s a type of conversation I would never get to hear / be part of
- whymauri 6y agoI'll give my thoughts. Although the wording seems clunky at first, the GP is actually identifying something really important about the growth of Clubhouse as a platform. Similar to Twitter, which has Black Twitter [0], Latino Twitter, etc, it seems that Clubhouse will also build these kinds of communities. When a chief concern about Clubhouse is lack of diversity, I think this is pretty meaningful. What I'm more interested in seeing though, is if Clubhouse can also incorporate class diversity without betraying its brand of exclusivity. Note: I'm not on Clubhouse and don't want to be. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter
- dr_dshiv 6y agoBlack lives matter!
- dkjaudyeqooe 6y agoIt doesn't, in and of itself. Here it's a proxy for a certain social or cultural group. To me it's interesting because it seems to reflect how innovation in things like music tends to migrate from ethnic African groups to the white middle class.
- utucuro 6y agoPlease consider that there is a world outside of the US. This dismissive attitude towards the rest of the world is what makes the way of living of a lot (actual billions) of people get excluded when US companies create things.
- trhway 6y agoit sounds like audio only version of chatroulette.
- harryf 6y agoI guess so but that it’s groups not 1-on-1 probably means people behave better. Also video is a higher barrier entry in terms of awkwardness etc
- wsinks 6y agoexcept chatroulette was random and didn't really have user accounts? Unless chatroulette became something different than the video window 1:1 with random people and usually phallic symbols... did I miss something? Very very different from chatroulette, in my opinion.
- jedberg 6y ago> Can be interesting to tap on the profile of who "Nominated" someone... and keep tapping until you get to the center of the graph. Wow, this was fascinating. There was a weird dichotomy on mine. If I clicked on my straight, white, male friends, in almost every case the chain ended in just one or two clicks with an OG user. If I clicked on anyone else (minority, women, etc), it was a long chain of people that usually involved a long string of black men and women. My own chain was an exception, having been invited by a minority woman and going through that long chain of black men and women. Even though I'm friends with a bunch of those straight white guys with short chains. But I never asked for an invite when they were all advertising invites on Facebook. I only joined when my friend insisted and sent me an invite. I don't know what any of that actually means, I just found it really interesting.
- texasbigdata 6y agoIs this signaling or what? What straussian message are you sending: don't accept invites? Sorry for the obtruse comment but feel lost.
- harpiaharpyja 6y agoThe message is: I did this, and this is what I found. I think you may be looking for something that isn't there.
- texasbigdata 6y agoreasonable thanks. You're probably right
- texasbigdata 6y agoJust checked. My chain is white guy invited by minority male invited by minority female, invited by minority female, invited by ... Still not sure how this is relevant.
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- wsinks 6y agoHow do you manage the notifications? I'm only following like 40 people but have change my notifications down to the lowest setting. Even at infrequent, it notified me every 30 mins in the last 18 hours... while I was sleeping too. Just wild.
- harryf 6y agoI don't use the notifications - have them disabled. I just dip in when I have time and see what's happening. May not be the best strategy but works for me.
- sigil 6y agoCan be interesting to tap on the profile of who "Nominated" someone... and keep tapping until you get to the center of the graph. This is an interesting take on social graphs I think. The first time I saw this kind of thing was on lobste.rs, where they call it the “user tree”: https://lobste.rs/u https://lobste.rs/u On both Clubhouse and lobste.rs, surfacing the invite tree makes users more mindful of who they invite. To an extent, they’re vouching for that person, and can be held responsible if that person misbehaves. Does anyone know what social network first exposed invite trees? I assume it can’t have originated recently with lobste.rs.
- korse 6y agoPlenty of p2p communities have been doing something similar for years. If you invite someone to the forum, and they get banned, you get banned too... or at least have your privileges revoked for some time.
- Kiro 6y agoTorrent sites have been doing invite trees for a long time. The oldest I personally remember was OiNK (2004).