We left California last year because our rent was too high for risky times. This fucking sucks. We could have stayed and
Saved a ton of our kid’s and our heartbreak and our landlord(a great guy) could have been made whole. Wtf?
If anyone out there is involved with this I am very interested and very motivated to figure out if I can get a JavaScript engine running in a DFINITY canister. I just need a compiled wasm and a candid file to try it out. I think. The wasm might need to be compiled in a particular way.
When I heard that they were going to monetize with 'tipping' my heart sank. If ever there was an opportunity for 'a rising tide lifts all boats' style social experiment, clubhouse was it. Charge a subscription, let people listen to long tail content that interests them, pay the people that get listened to. You incentives the creation of interesting conversations. It would have been like a giant long tail podcast generator where serendipity and intellect could spin out a lot of new ideas. Boo.
There was so much promise. After a year of quarantine I had 5 of my most interesting non work/family conversations of the year in a one week period. There was no real way for me to connect with those people without wading into the morass of twitter or instagram. I tried to build a tool (https://inof.me) to help people connect by providing an invitation and an asking for an offer. No one was really interested...it needed to be integrated into the platform to work. I couldn't block topics. I couldn't search for terms of active channels. I couldn't politely ping interesting people and ask if they'd like to set up a time to chat.
I love talking about decaying currency, certain(non-NFT) blockchain topics, Longhorn football, some philosophy topics, etc and I'll talk to anyone about them most all of the time if I can find a conversation partner(especially during quarantine). I had no real way to make those connection on clubhouse even though I had spoken with interested folks previously.
Most of all, I couldn't catch up. If an amazing conversation happened that you were late to...too bad. You couldn't explore and find if the person speaking was really trustworthy by looking at their back catalogs.
I wanted a clubhouse that lets me pay $9.99 a month to have access to a back catalogs that will let me listen to the interesting conversations that occurred in the past about very long-tail specific topics. Then I want to star those people with different color stars and notification levels so that if they start talking again I can quickly see what kind of conversation it is and jump in. If I'm late I want to back up 30 minutes and listen at 1.75x until I'm caught up. Give me the knobs and dials to customize my experience.
Trying to find examples of optimized land use in Houston seems to be a bit....um....what is the word for "absurd beyond the point that reason and logic would allow"?
I wish they would just charge a subscription fee for access to the back catalog and distribute a chunk of it to people based on an algo that encourages discussion and interaction. I have no desire to find 'content' on CH. I have had some awesome conversations with people on a wide range of fairly niche topics that never would have happened 'in the real world' without something like CH attracting a large following.
Still use coffeescriot when I need to do something quick. It has added all the async goodness of the more recent js implementations and it is still 10x easier to read and makes me 10x more effective.
How do you actually use this? Looks like you need to plug it into something? I signed up for the demo, but it didn't ask me what level I was or anything like that.
Have you watched the watchman tv show yet? Never read the books or watched the movie but this series caught me so off guard. It was wonderful and strange. At least strange from pre 2020 standards. If squid fell from the sky tomorrow I’d just brush it off at this point.
If you didn’t know....and I don’t want this to be a spoiler, but you figure it out in the first few pages...Fall is a direct and some what spiritual sequel to your two lowest rated....that being said it waves in a good bit of the snowcrash absurd stuff as well.