Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes

Re:Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price h... by KaoruAoiShiho on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @02:39PM (#30689193)

That's only true for platforms that make money from users, eg ad based platforms, not platforms that loses money from users, like vimeo. You have an opportunity to be on a platform where you are the customer and not the product, but i think it's pretty obvious that people would rather be the product.

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Re:Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price h... by winternett on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:01PM (#30689573)

Vimeo is losing money because they are not innovating anything beyond youtube. They also run a fairly closed off community from the rest of the Internet. People don't upload because YouTube is much more far-reaching and free to use.

The "kickstarter culture" move is usually always a bad idea for running and growing a business, companies that go the route of being subscriber funded eventually fail in highly competitive markets.

SoundCloud is doing the same thing and that is why they've lost most of their relevance to creators.

The future is in platforms that find ways to not tax and undervalue their creators, that's what the best creators will move to.

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Re:Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price h... by KaoruAoiShiho on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:10PM (#30692550)

Yes, platforms that sell their creators as the product, I get it.

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