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I tried to have fun with Twitter's Periscope a year ago, which has been out for a while. It's a group video chat app where anyone can pop in. In that way it'
by narrator 4y ago
I tried to have fun with Twitter's Periscope a year ago, which has been out for a while. It's a group video chat app where anyone can pop in. In that way it's sort of like clubhouse, but with video. When I would get on, it was 80% people sitting around talking to their friends, often in thick accents about nothing of particular interest (e.g people I don't know, things the chat participants experienced together that I have insufficient context to understand). That's probably 95% of the internet voice and video chats and I'm just not aware of it because I'm not randomly dropping in on people's conversations like you're allowed to do on periscope. Anyway, it's not the most easily monetizable thing, I'd imagine.
On Telegram voice chat, there's always some jerk or lunatic who talks over everyone who the rest of the chat participants have to tell to shut up. I think this is just a telegram problem because clubhouse has better moderation features.
Anyway, if you have a group of people you know and want to talk why not use Zoom? It's a better experience in every way. What's the benefit of letting random people drop in? Maybe with very clever moderation features it could work, but as is it seems kind of pointless.
- autoexec 4y ago> Anyway, if you have a group of people you know and want to talk why not use Zoom? Because they're a terrible company who has repeatedly demonstrated that they're at best shockingly incompetent at protecting your data or at worst maliciously allowing it to be leaked and collected by 3rd parties. Still, there are a lot of non-zoom options for video chat that would be a better experience so your overall point still stands, but it's still just weird to see anyone ask "why not use Zoom?" when by this time you'd expect to hear "Why would anyone still use Zoom?"