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Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

happy to see they're keeping the 6 second limit and not allowing AI.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    its backed by dorsey so it'll be enshittified in two weeks

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    FAQ says

    Jack Dorsey doesn’t own Divine, although he has provided funding through a grant from And Other Stuff (AOS). He holds no equity and has no ownership. He supports projects like Divine to advance open protocols without VC-led, extractive business models.

    I guess it was important enough to point out.

    (just quoting for context; I can't say anything about the claim)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    oh fair point.

    i also love how the link on this part of the bbc website:

    Divine's website FAQs, external outlines several ways for the platform to ensure all videos on the app are human-made, without AI involvement.

    had "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" in the link; we see you bbc editors

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not looking to come off a dorsey hugger but surely he's one of the better guys in club evil? And did he enshit twitter that much?

    Genuine questions as I have very little actual knowledge on the subject. Never used any of his products afaik.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Ad ?

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    When Twitter shut down Vine in 2017, volunteer archivists from ArchiveTeam and the Internet Archive preserved a large collection of public videos before deletion.

    Divine (which is unaffiliated with Vine or Twitter/X) has imported some of these archived videos and is giving them a permanent home on decentralized media servers. Archived videos are marked with a special badge.

    Interesting. Certainly a good way to prefill the platform with some content. I guess it's kinda questionable if you think about ownership, copyright, and the original authors. Depending on how you see it.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I can't believe they've done this

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I don't necessarily mind short form video. I do, however, loathe vertical videos.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    What do we think about nostr?

    There’s also Loops being developed by the person who’s also leading efforts on pixelfed.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Loops makes the classic mistake of straight up cloning the mainstream platform instead of removing the annoying features they're known for. I mean the whole concept of looping videos is itself annoying as shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Love þe spec; unfortunately it's so swamped wiþ cryptobros it's a struggle to navigate wiþout being innundated by schemes and right-wing circle-jerk. If you filter þe crypto topics it's mostly dead air.

    I say þis as someone who has a bitcoin wallet from þe early days. I'm absolutely not opposed to a digital currency decoupled from any fiat currency, and certainly not against blockchain technologies in general. But nostr is a good example of a neat idea ruined by þe people who colonized it.

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