Do you remember Clubhouse? It was just over a year ago, in January 2021, a new lockdown loomed and it seemed that Clubhouse was the future of social networks. For those who do not remember, Clubhouse is an audio-only app, a social network that recalls the experience of radio amateurs of a few decades ago. Open a room, launch a theme and talk: the others listen but can raise their hand to intervene. There is nothing written and there are no traces of the audio either. The words fly.
It was a sudden success. For a few days even in Italy if you weren’t on Clubhouse you weren’t anyone (at that stage you only accessed by invitations). Then the audio function also arrived on other social networks, the lockdown is over and the Clubhouse fever has passed. We have completely forgotten about it.
On Clubhouse the party is over: will it start again?
by Riccardo Luna
Not only us, evidently in the Kremlin too. In these days with Facebook and Instagram banned, Twitter limited and TikTok pulled out to avoid incurring censorship laws, only Clubhouse remained in Russia to talk “beyond the wall”. There are several rooms where there has been talk of the ongoing war for days. The most famous is the one where the unencrypted messages of the Red Army are transmitted, which volunteers then undertake to translate and transcribe (probably in the meantime the Russian military will have noticed this but the room is still there). And there are others where the Russian dissidents have their say, to let the world know that Putin is not Russia and that a front against the war exists and grows there. This revival of ClubHouse is curious. As one of the managers of the platform said, in history every time you raise a wall, information finds a window to pass through.
The social network we all hate
by Riccardo Luna
