▲ 156 ▼ Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive (techcrunch.com) submitted 9 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip [M] to c/technology@lemmy.zip 65 comments fedilink hide all child comments Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of 6-second, looping videos.
[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 0 points 9 months ago (1 child) Crypto powered social media? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago* (3 children) Plus, because it’s built on Nostr, a decentralized protocol favored by Dorsey, and is open source, developers can set up and create their own apps and run their own hosts, relays, and media servers. Sounds great in paper, in reality it amounts to little more than Twitter with Lightning (Bitcoin) duct-taped to the side permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago I don't think that's entirely fair; the Nostr protocol has a modular design philosophy, with most components being optional addons, including the Bitcoin payments stuff. It's genuinely decentralized and explicitly made to be easy to not use any baggage you don't like. It's unclear from the article if the use of the protocol will also mean overlap with the content and community of Nostr, which is understandable to criticize, but the protocol itself is just another take on decentralized social media that does things differently than activitypub. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago Lightning isn't Bitcoin Taping Lightning to the side of nostr sucks, but doesn't reduce it to "little more than Twitter" permalink fedilink source parent [–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) What makes Nostr like Bitcoin? Actually, what makes nostr like Twitter? I'll grant that the Bitcoin aspect is indeed merely tacked on the side of an otherwise unrelated protocol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 9 months ago* (47 children) The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills. (I don't say that as merely an insult. The people on it constantly post about cryptocurrency or use cryptocurrency-specific in-jokes.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 47 child comments load more comments (47 replies)
[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago* (3 children) Plus, because it’s built on Nostr, a decentralized protocol favored by Dorsey, and is open source, developers can set up and create their own apps and run their own hosts, relays, and media servers. Sounds great in paper, in reality it amounts to little more than Twitter with Lightning (Bitcoin) duct-taped to the side permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago I don't think that's entirely fair; the Nostr protocol has a modular design philosophy, with most components being optional addons, including the Bitcoin payments stuff. It's genuinely decentralized and explicitly made to be easy to not use any baggage you don't like. It's unclear from the article if the use of the protocol will also mean overlap with the content and community of Nostr, which is understandable to criticize, but the protocol itself is just another take on decentralized social media that does things differently than activitypub. permalink fedilink source parent [–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago Lightning isn't Bitcoin Taping Lightning to the side of nostr sucks, but doesn't reduce it to "little more than Twitter" permalink fedilink source parent [–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) What makes Nostr like Bitcoin? Actually, what makes nostr like Twitter? I'll grant that the Bitcoin aspect is indeed merely tacked on the side of an otherwise unrelated protocol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 9 months ago* (47 children) The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills. (I don't say that as merely an insult. The people on it constantly post about cryptocurrency or use cryptocurrency-specific in-jokes.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 47 child comments load more comments (47 replies)
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago I don't think that's entirely fair; the Nostr protocol has a modular design philosophy, with most components being optional addons, including the Bitcoin payments stuff. It's genuinely decentralized and explicitly made to be easy to not use any baggage you don't like. It's unclear from the article if the use of the protocol will also mean overlap with the content and community of Nostr, which is understandable to criticize, but the protocol itself is just another take on decentralized social media that does things differently than activitypub. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago Lightning isn't Bitcoin Taping Lightning to the side of nostr sucks, but doesn't reduce it to "little more than Twitter" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) What makes Nostr like Bitcoin? Actually, what makes nostr like Twitter? I'll grant that the Bitcoin aspect is indeed merely tacked on the side of an otherwise unrelated protocol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 9 months ago* (47 children) The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills. (I don't say that as merely an insult. The people on it constantly post about cryptocurrency or use cryptocurrency-specific in-jokes.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 47 child comments load more comments (47 replies)
[–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 9 months ago* (47 children) The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills. (I don't say that as merely an insult. The people on it constantly post about cryptocurrency or use cryptocurrency-specific in-jokes.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 47 child comments load more comments (47 replies)