Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is working on a Clubhouse clone

Agreed, I wish everyone wouldn’t keep supporting their attempts to crush competitors and harvest everyone’s data. It seems like antitrust laws should be rewritten to apply here.

But the opposite can happen like when Instagram copied Snapchat's functionality. I think the difference was Tiktok has a lot of creators entrenched in the platform with a strong community while Snapchat didn't have any sense of community. If Facebook/others are successful will probably depend on what kind of community they can build.

TikTok is a special case since it’s owned by a conglomerate with deep enough pockets to brute force their way into Western consciousness. They most likely pay their top creators not to post Instagram Reels.

I don’t think it would have nearly the amount of success today if it were an American company going through the traditional VC funding route.

If you’re choosing to speak into a megaphone on Clubhouse, effectively speaking publicly, why do you care if CCP listens?

I probably choose not to use any clone to avoid privacy issue.

I don't see myself having incentive to use Clubhouse like services anyway.