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Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
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[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

Edit: yes it is

“Do not build your own app. Vimeo's right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don't have to worry about legal compliance... Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."

Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout

that might age poorly

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Other video hosting providers are available if it ever becomes a problem. I don't think they will loose much sleep over this.

[-] fonix232@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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 for users in the EU. I have to admit I haven't seen any service being so actively destroyed by its owners.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 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.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 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

[-] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 2 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.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah shit, I hadn't thought of that. Hopefully this gives them a kick to upgrade their system or get something of their own.

[-] Alb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not a good news both for users and creators.

Price hikes coming... As usual with this company.

[-] l3ored@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Who uses it?

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty popular among film students and indie filmmakers

[-] Broken@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 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)

[-] Alb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mainly creators of visual content from all backgrounds

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 2 weeks ago

That or they post them so they can say they did before promoting within, hiring based on nepotism, or to be able to do a H1B hire.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 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.

[-] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 2 weeks ago

Bending Spoons laid ~~off~~ almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

I totally misread that & thought what a beast.

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