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This is the impression I got as well, and I didn't even have to use the app. I got the sense that all anyone cared about was growing their Clubhouse community,

This is the impression I got as well, and I didn't even have to use the app. I got the sense that all anyone cared about was growing their Clubhouse community, rather than using it because they liked it. It's hard to quantify or put your finger on it, but there was all this "hustle culture" around Clubhouse. Everyone talked about how great it was and how it was going to transform social media. But it was clear in that few believed it and just wanted to be the first to pitch their tent on new plot social media. As a result Clubhouse had a certain "emptyness" to it. Everyone was talking about how great it was and how great it was going to be, but there wasn't any actual content, just people repeating that message over and over again, or adjacent "hustle culture" topics like Stocks, Crypto, GaryVee Worship, etc. Since people in this space are very vocal online, you got the impression right off the bat that Clubhouse was skyrocketing in popularity, but it ended up being that you just had a small group of people in an echo chamber.

nstart 4y ago
In some ways I think this “meta” conversation style is part of the early stage of nearly every social network. Especially the ones that are public messaging by default (as opposed to something like FB or IG which was in theory at least, friends and family first). Twitter was a lot of talking about Twitter. Mastodon was and sometimes still is the same. Reddit had lots of meta chats. Even the early stages of fb had discussion of how it compared to hi5 or whatever network we migrated from. Same with google plus. I think one mark of success of the network is the moment it escapes that conversation. In my opinion it means that the usage of the network is no longer a novelty and is now part of a routine.

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This is the impression I got as well, and I didn't even have to use the app. I got the sense that all anyone cared about was growing their Clubhouse community,

by _fat_santa 4y ago

nstart 4y ago
In some ways I think this “meta” conversation style is part of the early stage of nearly every social network. Especially the ones that are public messaging by default (as opposed to something like FB or IG which was in theory at least, friends and family first). Twitter was a lot of talking about Twitter. Mastodon was and sometimes still is the same. Reddit had lots of meta chats. Even the early stages of fb had discussion of how it compared to hi5 or whatever network we migrated from. Same with google plus. I think one mark of success of the network is the moment it escapes that conversation. In my opinion it means that the usage of the network is no longer a novelty and is now part of a routine.