Facebook Launches Its Clubhouse Clone (theverge.com) 12
Facebook's Clubhouse competitor, Live Audio Rooms, is making its way stateside. From a report: The company announced today that some US-based public figures, as well as certain groups, can start hosting rooms through the main Facebook iOS app. (People can join, however, from both iOS and Android.) Anyone can be invited up as a speaker with up to 50 people able to speak at once. There's no cap on the number of listeners allowed in -- a major shot at Clubhouse, which imposes room size limitations. It's also introducing other nifty features, like notifications when your friends or followers join a room, as well as live captions. There will be a "raise a hand" button to request to join the conversation, and reactions will be available to to interact throughout the chat. Twitter Spaces, Twitter's live audio feature, includes captions, but Clubhouse still does not.
Within groups, admins can control who's allowed to create a room: moderators, group members, or other admins. Public group chats will be accessible both in and outside the group, but private group chats will be restricted to members. Additionally, hosts can also select a nonprofit or fundraiser to support during their conversation with a button to directly donate showing up on the chat. Again, this feels like a feature directly built to address a key Clubhouse use case and make it frictionless. (Many Clubhouse creators have hosted fundraisers on the app but have to direct people to outside links in order to facilitate donations.)
Within groups, admins can control who's allowed to create a room: moderators, group members, or other admins. Public group chats will be accessible both in and outside the group, but private group chats will be restricted to members. Additionally, hosts can also select a nonprofit or fundraiser to support during their conversation with a button to directly donate showing up on the chat. Again, this feels like a feature directly built to address a key Clubhouse use case and make it frictionless. (Many Clubhouse creators have hosted fundraisers on the app but have to direct people to outside links in order to facilitate donations.)
"Room size limitations?" (Score:2)
You can't even join Clubhouse itself unless invited in. Just being able to sign up for this app would be a "major shot at Clubhouse."
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Bullish for Clubhouse (Score:2)
Apparently Clubhouse now hosts rooms of people who show up to meow at each other, and other such groups.
From what I can tell, the set of people who have compelling conversations on Clubhouse and those who have deleted Facebook are close to full overlap.
The furries can probably do better on Facebook where they already lurk outside of Clubhouse (and Tumbler, natch).
wtf is clubhouse (Score:1)
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It seems to be apple related, so I don't know.
What? (Score:2)
They want to sell spices? [ssl-images-amazon.com] (SFW)
Haven't heard Clubhouse in a while, FB got in late (Score:2)