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I spoke on the app one night with a Chinese dissident about his experiences in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Nowhere else is it possible to make that c

I spoke on the app one night with a Chinese dissident about his experiences in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Nowhere else is it possible to make that conversation happen right now except for Clubhouse. Is the app some deeply innovative technology? No. But it is a thoroughly well-done combination of existing technology, and it has evolved social networking to be much more pleasant, thought-provoking and intimate than what has come before. Status-seeking is the reserve currency of social networking applications (including this one we're using right now), but at least Clubhouse aligns the incentive to seek status with generating a quality product for the community. (Maybe it's just too soon to say for sure; I imagine there existed a time when people on Instagram really did get attention for interesting photos.)

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
I've played hundred of hours of gaming online, and ni all plateform with a voice chat, you could do that. Even before voice, we could do that on text chat (Wow and SC were quite political if you wanted to) And of course IRC and forums. But don't worry, as soon as the CCP realize Clubhouse is a place for talking about this, it will take actions.
- baryphonic 5y ago
  I'm not sure it would be so easy to find a fifty-year-old who had been in the Tiananmen Square protests and who was playing WOW or Starcraft, but fair enough. My post explicitly said that Clubhouse's combination of existing technology is what makes it unique - voice chat, topic/person discovery, search. All of those things are possible through other mash-ups of existing technology. Hell, you could conceivably clone Clubhouse with a Minecraft server and Discord. But CH has the overall experience that reduces friction. And now it also has network effects, since enough interesting people are on it that the experience is just that much better. I, likewise, share the concern that the CCP will use its heavy hand to destroy CH. I hope the founders are smart enough to divest from CCP-controlled tech ASAP.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago

I've played hundred of hours of gaming online, and ni all plateform with a voice chat, you could do that. Even before voice, we could do that on text chat (Wow and SC were quite political if you wanted to) And of course IRC and forums. But don't worry, as soon as the CCP realize Clubhouse is a place for talking about this, it will take actions.

baryphonic 5y ago
I'm not sure it would be so easy to find a fifty-year-old who had been in the Tiananmen Square protests and who was playing WOW or Starcraft, but fair enough. My post explicitly said that Clubhouse's combination of existing technology is what makes it unique - voice chat, topic/person discovery, search. All of those things are possible through other mash-ups of existing technology. Hell, you could conceivably clone Clubhouse with a Minecraft server and Discord. But CH has the overall experience that reduces friction. And now it also has network effects, since enough interesting people are on it that the experience is just that much better. I, likewise, share the concern that the CCP will use its heavy hand to destroy CH. I hope the founders are smart enough to divest from CCP-controlled tech ASAP.