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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 π€’
Yeah, it is just going to be filled with shortened down tiktok slop rather than anything it would have been in the past.
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 π€·ββοΈ
We have a billion platforms for longer vids. The shortness is what made vine amazing. They need to keep it that way.
3 minutes is a fucking movie marathon in modern content terms (and I'll never forgive big tech for it)
Crypto powered social media?
Sounds great in paper, in reality it amounts to little more than Twitter with Lightning (Bitcoin) duct-taped to the side
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.
Lightning isn't Bitcoin
Taping Lightning to the side of nostr sucks, but doesn't reduce it to "little more than Twitter"
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?
Colloquially crypto means crypto currencies or NFTs like bitcoin, not normal encryption.
Right, and the point is that nostr isn't "crypto-powered" by that colloquial definition. It is "crypto-powered" in that it uses encryption though.