US EditionVine Is Back, Sort Of: New App Shuts Out AI as Thousands of Old Videos Return
Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit funds diVine, restoring over 100,000 Vine videos on a decentralized platform that blocks AI-generated content to preserve authentic social media.
- On Thursday, Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, launched the diVine app, backed by his nonprofit And Other Stuff and a $10 million grant, offering over 100,000 archived Vine videos.
- Dorsey funded the nonprofit to support experimental open-source projects, enabling creative engineers to build on permissionless, open-source protocols and revive pre-AI web 2.0 nostalgia.
- Archivists had preserved Vine as large binary files, prompting Evan Henshaw-Plath, known as Rabble, to write big-data scripts and reconstruct videos, metadata, and user accounts from 2.5 terabytes of archive data.
- Vine creators can reclaim accounts by verifying control or requesting DMCA takedown, and interest spiked with 10k testflight signups in four hours, Rabble said.
- Built on the decentralized Nostr protocol, diVine avoids traditional VC models and bans generative AI content using Guardian Project verification to ensure human-recorded uploads.
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The founder of the Jack Dorsey-backed app reviving Vine wants to fight against AI slop
Evan Henshaw-Plath, one of the original Twitter employees, is reviving Vine with a new app called diVine, which aims to be anti-AI content.Sam Barnes/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty ImagesEvan Henshaw-Plath launched diVine to revive the spirit of Vine and fight internet decline.The app, supported by Jack Dorsey's nonprofit, aims to counter AI-generated content online.Rabble and Dorsey envision a decentralized internet to restore authentic di…
Vine is back, rebooted as diVine, funded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey
What's old is new again — Vine is back. Well, kind of. And Other Stuff, a nonprofit collective run by Jack Dorsey — yes, the Twitter founder who originally killed Vine — financed diVine, which launched Thursday. It has very similar branding to Vine, is focused on six-second videos, and will feature archived, old Vines. TechCrunch, which spoke with the company, reported diVine users will have access to over 100,000 archived Vine videos.Here's wha…
Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned
Twitter co-founder and blockchain evangelist Jack Dorsey has made good on his promise of reviving his much-missed, six-second video platform Vine — well, sort of. As TechCrunch reports, the rebooted platform, dubbed diVine, will include over 100,000 archived videos from the platform, likely only a small fraction of the platform’s original database. Vine had over 200 million active monthly users in its heyday ten years ago, but was shut down in 2…
After shutting down Vine in 2017, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey invests in a reboot of the app with more than 10,000 archived six-second videos
When Twitter, now X, shut down Vine in 2017, users thought its six-second videos were gone forever—but now, the former CEO who shuttered the app is helping bring them back. Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter chief and now CEO (or Blockhead) at payments company Block, is supporting a Vine reboot app called diVine that plans to bring back 10,000 archived videos from the defunct platform once thought lost to the world. The new app, which is being fund…
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