Gregory's ServerI don't really understand why people are talking about Clubhouse at all. Has their use case not already been long solved by Teamspeak, Mumble, Discord, Zoom, Skype, Jitsi and so on?
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 Eugen, well, they use SaaS solution from company called Agora for the voice part. And there was a twitter thread that stated that it sends user and room IDs unencrypted over the network.  @Gargron Clubhouse is a security nightmare too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26125842   @Gargron The main additional feature, as far as I've been told, are follow relations between users with push notifications if someone you follow creates a new room or enters one. I still think that the largest extent of the hype can be attributed to scarcity-marketing to elitist hipsters though.  Skype had skypecasts in late '00s for several years. These were mostly the same thing.  @Gargron but you can speak to elon musk!!! :blobcatglaredrink: Yeah, I don't get it. :psyduck:  @Gargron they have an aggressive LinkedIn-esque invite system that tries to pull in your whole address book. Growth hacking  @Gargron yes, but all the ones you listed have crappy interfaces and are harder to setup and use, also most of them are decentralized, which is not really easy to grasp for many.
But I am asking myself why #Mumble and #Teamspeak weren't anything as popular. everybody wants to be the new facebook. So they create a hype. Next idea for a social network: S.O.S. (Social over Servers), ppl tap in morse code (128bit encryption) while other ppl read it. There will be a podcast version of it....... /s @Gargron people just follow trends!!! For example one of the reason that they migrate from Whatsapp to Signal is Ilon! So if celebrities speaks about a platform people follow them! @Gargron I guess it's the invite-only implied exclusivity. which contradicts the whole idea of connecting people to begin with. @Gargron Got so much info noise about clubhouse. And my daughter explained me very simple why they started with that. As everybody invest now into it (money and time) “The probably that needed person will reply is much higher there” |
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Never heard of it. Apparently its invite only at this point. Discord, while feature rich is a security nightmare.
I'd try it out if I had an invite.