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0 pointsscyzoryk_xyz4y ago0 comments

I'm sorry if this is a bit insensitive, but if we're talking about a sound conversation based platform, isn't it a bit absurd for deaf communities to be upset?

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jploh4y ago

I have a friend I knew from work who is severely hard of hearing (and we were actually a business phone company). I invited him to Clubhouse and asked him to try Twitter Spaces. We haven't seen captioning work on Clubhouse whereas it's available to all users on Twitter Spaces.

Also, isolated to me or a tiny subset of users - the only way to sign in is with a OTP sent via SMS. The delivery is very spotty for my carrier for some unknown reason (other services can deliver fine). So like right now, I can't log in and have to wait until they quietly restore delivery.

It's unfortunate because the stability of the Clubhouse app is far better than Twitter Spaces. A group I'm with has spent promoting events and it's embarrassing and annoying to have the Twitter Space unexpectedly end for everyone if the app of the "host" crashes.

detaro4y ago

No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.

Kye4y ago

It's the same situation with everything being a video now. I do better with diagrams and text, but now I have to sit through someone jabbering for 9 minutes for 1 minute of content to please the algorithm. And as someone who wants to make how-tos, getting any traffic to text these days is nearly impossible.

Invictus04y ago

Huh? What serious subject has only video tutorials and no text/diagrams? I also don't understand your argument about traffic to text at all, we're on a high-traffic mostly-text site right now with plenty of how-to style content.

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scyzoryk_xyzOP4y ago

Oh I’m with you on that one. It’s like the lazy less effective formats are cannibalizing all the others.

scyzoryk_xyzOP4y ago

Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.

kevingadd4y ago

In the US there are actually legal requirements now for certain types of communication software (including video games!) to offer text-to-speech/speech-to-text or equivalent accessibility technology to address this sort of problem if they include voice chat. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/video-game-communication-no...

chrischen4y ago

Except conversations don’t have to be audio only. Take our exchange right here.

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jploh4y ago

detaro4y ago

No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.

Kye4y ago

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scyzoryk_xyzOP4y ago

Oh I’m with you on that one. It’s like the lazy less effective formats are cannibalizing all the others.

scyzoryk_xyzOP4y ago

Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.

kevingadd4y ago

chrischen4y ago

Except conversations don’t have to be audio only. Take our exchange right here.

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