2021-04-20 UTC
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# 11:29 voxpelli Is it really voice only IRC? To me it feels like a social network where the social entities are temporary spoken word moderated IRC channels
# 11:48 GWG voxpelli: I'm always here...well, except when I was servicing my IRC bouncer this weekend
# 11:49 voxpelli I'm always here when IRCCloud hasn't accidentally kicked me out, paying for IRCCloud just to idle here ;P
# 11:56 voxpelli GWG: Know if anyone has set up something Clubhouse like in the IndieWeb world?
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# 13:16 aaronpk Depends on what you mean by "clubhouse-like". There's a lot more to it that just voice chat or "voice only IRC"
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# 15:32 voxpelli aaronpk: yeah, Clubhouse feels like a social network for temporary/momentary audio-only rooms/channels. Both spontaneous ones and scheduled ones
# 15:34 voxpelli the social network part and the scheduled part could easily be handled within IndieWeb, but the actual "momentary audio-only room" – would that be like a video conference option on a calendar entity?
# 15:36 aaronpk a huge part of clubhouse is the discovery aspect too, which is not something i would say we have solved
# 15:36 aaronpk tbh the audio call is better solved than discovery right now
# 15:36 voxpelli yeah, some kind of aggregation would be needed to have it go outside of ones personal social network
# 15:37 voxpelli + a really important one for that would be to announce that one is in a room and if one is speaking in that room
# 15:37 aaronpk there's certainly many different ways to do it, but I would not say that any of them are particularly usable or well-explored at the moment
# 15:38 voxpelli starting of with an event and having an audio-only room for it just like one could have eg. a zoom, that could perhaps be a good starting point?
# 15:39 voxpelli then a discovery experience could be iterated over on top of that?
# 15:40 aaronpk that's pretty much already how virtual HWCs work :)
# 15:40 aaronpk post an event on events.indieweb.org, add the link to the zoom call
# 15:40 aaronpk if you wanted to make it audio-only, it's not hard to imagine the voice call happening from within the events.indieweb.org website
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# 15:41 aaronpk but again, most of what clubhouse is isn't just that it's a voice call, it's all the UI and discovery stuff they did around it
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# 16:14 voxpelli aaronpk: would be interesting to sketch out some of that on the clubhouse page
# 16:15 voxpelli Reason why I started thinking about this was that I have organised some clubhouse chats and gotten valid complaints of it's iOS-only nature
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# 16:27 [chrisaldrich] I thought I heard that Discord was doing some audio as well? I got an email about a karaoke discord for later today, so I suspect I'll find out shortly.
# 16:29 [chrisaldrich] Hmmm... Their original service was voice based, though it was a bit more static and async, but did better at some discovery. Maybe more like microcasts meets Twitter in flavor.
# 16:30 voxpelli both Reddit and Twitter are launching Clubhouse clones though, which are social
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# 16:54 aaronpk Discord just launched a clubhouse clone in Discord too
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# 17:12 [tw2113_Slack_] so many silo’d flogging rooms
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# 20:09 [tantek] and Clubhouse is revealed for what it is: a feature, not a separate thing. E.g. just like Snapchat before it.
# 20:17 jacky Clubhouse's discovery, IIRC, is aggregating what you see from people you follow, no?
# 20:17 jacky because I haven't seen anything "recommended" that wasn't using someone I follow as a metric
# 20:18 jacky not too shocked that Discord had this going, they've been really good at it
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