VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends

Name: VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends
Description: Folding Ideas uses the rise and fall of the YouTube competitor VidMe to examine why platforms are not friends to creators. It argues that alternatives to big platforms tend to attract the users banned from the original and lack a core vision.

Folding Ideas

Folding Ideas uses the rise and fall of the YouTube competitor VidMe to examine why platforms are not friends to creators. It argues that alternatives to big platforms tend to attract the users banned from the original and lack a core vision.

HN commenters cite it whenever a thread asks why clones of or alternatives to YouTube, Reddit or Twitter fail or turn toxic.

12 Hacker News mentions · 2017–2023

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Internet culture & memes
Tech industry & business models
Product, marketing & sales

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