Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive
"As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s backing."
I didn’t have Rabble bringing back Vine on my bingo card, but I should have.
This is fascinating:
“On Thursday, a new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored from an older backup that was created before Vine’s shutdown.
The app won’t just exist as a walk down memory lane; it will also allow users to create profiles and upload their own new Vine videos. However, unlike on traditional social media, where AI content is often haphazardly labeled, diVine will flag suspected generative AI content and prevent it from being posted.”
This time around, it’s all based on Nostr, a decentralized social networking protocol that is intentionally not owned or controlled by a single entity. The game-changer is including Vine’s back archives, which is presumably only possible because of Jack Dorsey’s involvement.
Dorsey has been a major backer of Nostr for the last few years, investing in the protocol and apps that have the potential to make it successful. Rabble, of course, was one of the core group at Odeo that was present for the inception of Twitter, along with Dorsey; they’re frequent collaborators and Dorsey backed Rabble’s startup nos.social. Clearly Dorsey has had, or been able to negotiate, access to the Vine back catalogue, which makes sense as a potential way to encourage folks to join the Nostr network.
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