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Comment by goatinaboat | Hacker News Reader

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I really hoped that Clubhouse would corral all the hardcore narcissists away from all other social media, but it's made them worse, they spend all their time on Twitter bragging about how they're on Clubhouse now. Pathetic.

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So far I only ever hear about clubhouse on hn. Though I'm not really on social media much. I just checked the about page and it actually sounds like a neat idea - voice based chat forums, where new people have to listen for a bit and be given permission to talk from those already talking. Doesn't sound like it's about gaining likes or showing off or inanely talking about yourself. I don't know if it's any good or if the world needs yet another social media platform but it sounds more suited to genuine conversation than quite a few of the current big social media services.

The problem is there’s no search or Filtering. You mostly just see the big rooms. Which means you’re never going to talk when there’s 1000 people in the room and Bill Gates is talking. Clubhouse unfortunately isn’t what you described thinking. It could be! But isn’t.

Also the initial roll out allowed certain people to become pseudo super users who are leaders of many clubs.

Also, the follower count is still a huge metric. Even more of one because there is no like.

For what it's worth, I remember people posting on Livejournal and various forums about how cool they were to have a Facebook account....

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