The design of Clubhouse doesn't start with rooms: it starts with people. You follow people you want to listen to, and when they happen to be in rooms--rooms eit

The design of Clubhouse doesn't start with rooms: it starts with people. You follow people you want to listen to, and when they happen to be in rooms--rooms either they started or that were started by someone they know who they follow and so they joined and were invited on stage--you get notifications and see those rooms on your list. You don't go into Clubhouse searching for rooms--they didn't even try to add features to let you rhino about rooms until December, and it frankly felt like they simply gave up on their vision--you search for people. (FWIW, that a system where you value people above content, and where rooms largely fork out of cliques of people who want to be associated with each other's followers, leads to "a circle jerk for the hosts", as you call it, might be obvious... at least in retrospect ;P.)