- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is funding diVine, a reboot of the iconic short-form video app Vine.
- The new app gives users access to an archive of over 100,000 classic six-second Vine videos.
- diVine is taking a strong stance against artificial intelligence, vowing to flag and block suspected generative AI content.
- Built on the decentralized Nostr protocol, the app allows users to create new profiles and upload their own videos.
The Return of a Social Media Legend
In a move that has sent waves of nostalgia across the internet, the beloved six-second video platform Vine is making a comeback. Backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, a new app called diVine has launched, resurrecting not only the iconic looping video format but also a massive archive of its most memorable content.
The project, financed by Dorsey’s nonprofit “and Other Stuff,” aims to restore a sense of authenticity to a social media landscape increasingly saturated with AI-generated content. The app, now available for iOS and Android, provides access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, painstakingly restored from a backup created after the original platform was shut down by Twitter in 2016.
A Stand Against AI
Beyond the nostalgia, diVine is positioning itself as an antidote to the current AI trend. The app will actively flag and prevent the posting of suspected generative AI videos, ensuring that the content remains human-made. This effort is spearheaded by early Twitter employee Evan Henshaw-Plath (also known as Rabble), who believes users are craving a more genuine social experience.
“Can we do something that takes us back… to an era of social media where you could either have control of your algorithms… and where you know that it’s a real person that recorded the video?” Rabble explained to TechCrunch. To achieve this, the app uses technology from the Guardian Project to help verify that new videos are recorded on a smartphone.
How the Archive Was Reborn
The journey to revive Vine began when Henshaw-Plath delved into an archive saved by the Archive Team, a community project dedicated to preserving internet history. After months of writing scripts and reconstructing the data, he successfully extracted a significant portion of Vine’s most popular videos, along with user data, views, and even some of the original comments.
While not the entire Vine library, the app contains an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 videos from about 60,000 creators. Original Vine creators can reclaim their accounts by verifying their identity and can also request the removal of their content via a DMCA takedown notice.
A Decentralized Future
The new platform is built on Nostr, a decentralized, open-source protocol favored by Dorsey. This foundation prevents it from being shut down “based on the whim of a corporate owner,” a pointed lesson from Vine’s original demise.
“Nostr… is empowering developers to create a new generation of apps without the need for VC-backing, toxic business models or huge teams of engineers,” Dorsey stated. This launch notably precedes a similar, yet-unfulfilled promise from X owner Elon Musk to bring back the Vine archive.
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