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The thing that you notice almost immediately is that the vast majority of people suck at the medium of Clubhouse. It’s like scrolling through an endless list of the worst podcasts in the world.

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Dumbassery regarding being IOS only and invite only resulted me never trying it and I no longer care to try it, the hype is over

Exactly. My first introduction to Clubhouse was when some startup guy at a Hackathon I was attending in Windsor, ON mentioned that he "bought and carries an iPhone just for clubhouse," and said that we (broke college students) should buy iPhones too so we can "network" on Clubhouse. I promptly lost all interest in the app.

In my part of the (3rd) world, people on Twitter(!) would boast of being in erudite and sophisticated Clubhouse rooms while speaking down their noses at Android peasantry[1], most times in good nature. Since twitter launched spaces, that's all I hear about - I don't recall anyone mentioning CH even once.

1. I'm embarrassed to say that the iPhone has become something of a status signal

> It’s like scrolling through an endless list of the worst podcasts in the world.

And from my experience those were some of the better results, second place goes to "how to get rich quick" (and similar) encounters that just gave me the feeling of walking through some pyramid scheme/scam convention buried in tons and tons of emojis.

Good quality content is almost always edited, not live.

And what is live is almost always well-rehearsed.

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