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glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Vimeo is a video hosting platform but it isn’t anywhere near YouTube replacement. It would be such a massive shift in their business model that trying to make it one would result a second dead site

There is no algorithm and search function, I don’t even think there’s a notification feature. Vimeo is mostly for artists to upload to and manually send the link

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It is worse in that Vimeo makes money by charging creators to host their content instead of YouTube’s model of it being free or a way to make money.

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- glimse@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Didn’t even think of that but yeah true. They aim for quality over quantity and it should stay that way
  
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ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Things change, and full DRM would hasten that change. YT is a platform, they don’t own the content.

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- glimse@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That doesn’t really have any impact on my point. They’re similar in a few ways but it’s like suggesting Wikipedia becomes an IMDB replacement, it would completely change the brand
  
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