Dutch Social Network Hyves Returns Nearly 13 Years After Closure
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Hyves is back. The popular social media platform from the 2000s is becoming a place without addictive algorithms. The ambitions are high – the hope is to have 1.5 million users in just a few months – but owner Mediahuis is also showing realism: "If we have to conclude in two years that this doesn't work, then so be it. At least we will have tried."
Dutch social network Hyves returns nearly 13 years after closure
The Hyves, which can be described as a Dutch version of Facebook, is making a comeback 22 years after it was founded. According to the owner, Mediahuis, there is demand for social media with “fewer intrusive ads, no addictive algorithms, and no endless scrolls.”
It is a trip down memory lane for many: Hyves, the Dutch social media platform that everyone once seemed to be on. After thirteen years, it is back…
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Hyves is back as a social network after thirteen years. Owner Mediahuis, known for newspapers such as De Telegraaf and De Limburger, believes there is a need in the Netherlands for an alternative to Facebook that deliberately avoided addictive algorithms and endless scrolling.
Hyves, once the largest and most popular social networking site in the Netherlands, is returning after 13 years. Mediahuis Nederland, newspaper publisher of NRC and De Telegraaf among others, is bringing back the friendship website that is nostalgic for many. 'Scribbles' on each other, sending a dancing banana, and pimping your profile: many of Hyves' familiar features have remained. But the website is far from being the same. For instance, the…
Hyves is back! Exactly 22 years after the Dutch social network was born, Mediahuis Netherlands is breathing new life into the wildly popular platform from the 2000s on Tuesday.
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