[tegiddrone]

The guilty-pleasure entertainment from drama makes sense. Though I interpreted it in part a side effect of the ephemeral nature of a room, strongly discouraging recording. A place where it was difficult to be held accountable by being recorded in some form and refuted more formally. A platform that rewards the underdeveloped thoughts in ones head. Maybe that's just social media in general but felt like it was sharper here. I stopped coming before they added the clipping feature.

My favorite example was when there was some comradery in a room about a guy divorcing his wife because she got COVID vaccinated and there was some unfounded ideas about a sexually transmitted thing about the vaccines. It would be interesting if they would allow the audience to have some passive feedback, like thumbs down "I disagree with the stage." Then at least it wouldn't feel like an echo chamber by the loudest while half the audience is just listening curiously in disbelief.

[davidbarker]

That’s true. The Clips/Replay (Clips being the ability to save a 30-second clip of the room and Replay being the ability to listen back to a whole room after it’s finished, for those who don’t know) was quite a big addition for a social network that seemed to have ephemerality as one of its big selling points. It’s difficult to know how it affected the app as it was added as the app had already started to lose users.

Was the room you mention based on the false information that the COVID vaccine causes you to be HIV+? I remember that was a talking point for a few weeks.

I agree — I really like the emoji responses you can give in a Twitter Space. Clubhouse does at least now have a chatroom for everyone in the room, including the audience, if the creator enables it.