Once blocked, they can’t join or even see any room that you create, or in which you are speaking-which effectively blocks them for everyone else in that room. Rather, it limits the way that person can communicate with others too. When you block someone on Clubhouse, it doesn’t just affect communications between the two of you, as it would on Facebook or Twitter.
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And as Clubhouse finally launches on Android this week, it might also hold a key to the platform’s downfall. It has likely played a role in Clubhouse’s growth, helping the app rocket to 10 million active users on iOS in just one year.
What it built was a blocking tool more potent, more consequential, and ultimately more contentious than that of any other social platform. So when Clubhouse went to develop its own blocking feature in the fall, in response to user outcries over rampant misogyny, anti-Semitism, and coronavirus misinformation, it had to come up with a new approach. A conversation in which certain people’s voices are silenced for certain other people would be incoherent to all. It’s among the saving graces of a realm buffeted by bots and wracked with rancor.īut what if blocking didn’t, or couldn’t, work that way? The year-old social audio app Clubhouse is built on live group conversations: Everyone in a given “room”-a virtual space convened around a given topic-hears the same person speak at the same time, and that shared context forms the basis of all interactions. Since your feed is made up of discrete posts personalized for you by an algorithm, blocking one person’s in particular can be a simple, unobtrusive action. You’ll no longer see them on the platform, they’ll no longer see you, and then you’ll both go on social networking, largely as you did before. To block someone on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter is not, in the scheme of things, a big deal.
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