Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of 6-second, looping videos.

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[–] 51 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

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.

Although I really enjoyed and kinda miss Vine, I think it's important to realize Vine was also a product of its time.
The internet culture changed a lot since Vine shutdown. Bringing Vine back won't bring that old culture back, and the 6-second limit is more likely to alienate new users used to the modern short-video platforms than anything.

I will give them props for trying to fight the seemingly unstoppable slop-ification of the internet, but ultimately it believe it would be best to leave Vine and the great memories we had with it on the past.

......Also, negative interest with interacting with Nostr and crypto powered social media 🤢

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    The 6 second time limit and forced 3 time loop was really annoying. Short videos, sure. But maybe like average song length short. 3 minutes.

    Then again, those quirks are what made some pretty memorable Vines 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    ……Also, negative interest with interacting with Nostr and crypto powered social media 🤢

    You're saying you hate piefed for actually using encryption for users to log into specific accounts before posting instead of just being anon posts like 4chan?

    And you hate 4chan for using https instead of being like old BBS forums?

    Or is it just nostr using decentralized logins that takes the cryptography too far for you?

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (51 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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    But why? 6 second video slop is already everywhere.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    I hope he won't fight the removal of the 6-second limit after beta testing is over. That should just be a way to save storage space and bandwidth during the beta test. Nostr is decentralized, so there should be nothing stopping someone from mirroring the app with no 6-second limit in their version, if it actually gets developed into a stable service. Or this jack-backed version could just remove the 6-second limit

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    He's so desperate to be relevant. This will flop so hard.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Neat? But not worth my time

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