I always preferred the well-produced podcasts where a week is spent to make an hour of content (like those made by Gimlet, Radiotopia) over the ones that just throw some people into a microphone to ramble for a few hours. It seems like Clubhouse is that latter sort, turned up to 11. But those were the most successful podcasts anyway (eg. Rogan), so Clubhouse will probably take over the world.
On the other hand, while there are a lot of "influencer" rooms, there have been a lot of rooms where discussions I don't see going on anywhere else are happening.
I'm specifically talking about politics, things like CRT (critical race theory) and it's march through schools, business, and politics. As well as other controversial subjects.
At times they get heated but for the most part people are generally civil and the discussions can be enlightening.
Yep, where the medium shines is with controversy. Live audio is simultaneously more humanizing, and less efficient, than text or pre-recorded social media. That tradeoff seems well worth it to me.
Even so, a lot of discussions still demand good/strict moderation.
And all the other growth hacking and flirting stuff is pretty cringey.
> I'm specifically talking about politics, things like CRT (critical race theory) and it's march through schools, business, and politics.
This sounds like every right wing subreddit and youtube channel in existence. I don't think any of those have hit critical mass, definitely nowhere near something to justify Clubhouse's valuation.
That’s good to know, maybe I should check out some of the less popular rooms. Similarly, it would be unfair to judge all of Reddit based on their default subreddits.
