Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News

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• ech@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Whelp, hopefully federated video sharing gets the momentum it needs to compete with YT. Seems like it’s the only alternative that’ll be left.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have seen a few smaller ones pop up too (admittedly not open source) like Nebula. I could see the appeal of a professional hosting service for creators

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    • Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Floatplane too i guess.

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    • greybeard@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know about Floatplane or Nebula, but Dropout uses Vimeo as their back end. So this could impact some of the independent guys.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Patreon seems like the most likely competitor. I think some content is now hosted directly there.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That will simply never happen, YouTube I think is a two digit percentage of global Internet traffic.

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    • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I doubt Vimeo was putting up numbers that actually competed, either, but it was there as an alternative.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Need to solve the discover-ability of it though. Peertube is only useful if you know what you’re going there for.

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    • Trilogy3452@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Week need a Peektube to accompany it

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Video sharing is not a technically difficult problem in 2026. It really is just about making the money work.

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?

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  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Other video hosting providers are available if it ever becomes a problem.

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, it’s not something that would kill the service. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.

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    • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What you lose is audience. People often aren't willing to replatform for a single creator.

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• Alb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not a good news both for users and creators.

  Price hikes coming… As usual with this company.

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  • l3ored@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who uses it?

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    • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty popular among film students and indie filmmakers

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    • Broken@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Companies that want control over their videos. I.e. not to have ads play, not to have their videos followed by suggested content that sends viewers to competitors, nor have that alternate content show when the UI is paused or interacted with. It also allows updating of videos (whereas YouTube makes you upload a new video and you loose all links or view stats/momentum from the switch)

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    • Alb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mainly creators of visual content from all backgrounds

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• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s wild, because I recall seeing job postings for Vimeo as recently as 2 months ago.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Job postings don’t necessarily mean that they’re actually hiring. Sometimes job postings are used to appear healthy in public.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not very often though.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Companies don’t stop hiring, at least in tech. They can force out more expensive talent and hire in cheaper areas or get more junior talent. You could very well interview your potential replacement.

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• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck. Vimeo is used by many filmmakers and streaming services, moving all of that content elsewhere will be downright impossible to carry out completely. A lot of content will be irrecoverably lost once the company is really killed off.

  Last year or so they disabled viewing other people’s profiles or even searching the website in the EU. I have to admit I haven’t seen any service being so actively destroyed.

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  • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    by its owners

    *it’s new owners

    seems to be a typical buyout into milking and eroding cycle

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hyaenas doing hyaena things.

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• ideonek@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Vimeo. AI-powerd video platform”.

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• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like they’ve been leaning hard into AI. Ugh.

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  • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What makes you say that? The Business Insider source from the comments on the linked page doesn’t talk about AI at all. But describes how they were bought, by a firm that does this cycle of buy and layoff.

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    • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because they’ve title their home page as such. Here’s what I see when I search.

      Image

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  :(

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does Vimeo own their own their own infrastructure, or just lease streaming storage from AWS/Google/Whomever?

  If the former, it could be a good takeover target.

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  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your logic is sound, but Bending Spoon is not know to care about value. If Vimeo owns any infrastructure, they’ll sell at it at ebay.

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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

  I totally misread that & thought what a beast.

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