this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
32 points (86.4% liked)

Technology

43468 readers
281 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
alyaza@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
rs5th@beehaw.org
coldredlight@beehaw.org
SemioticStandard@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social
remington@beehaw.org
32
Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 week ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 20 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

When Twitter shut down Vine in 2017, volunteer archivists from ArchiveTeam and the Internet Archive preserved a large collection of public videos before deletion.

Divine (which is unaffiliated with Vine or Twitter/X) has imported some of these archived videos and is giving them a permanent home on decentralized media servers. Archived videos are marked with a special badge.

Interesting. Certainly a good way to prefill the platform with some content. I guess it's kinda questionable if you think about ownership, copyright, and the original authors. Depending on how you see it.

[–] ReasonablyStressed@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

I can't believe they've done this

[–] fake_username@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

happy to see they're keeping the 6 second limit and not allowing AI.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

its backed by dorsey so it'll be enshittified in two weeks

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

FAQ says

Jack Dorsey doesn’t own Divine, although he has provided funding through a grant from And Other Stuff (AOS). He holds no equity and has no ownership. He supports projects like Divine to advance open protocols without VC-led, extractive business models.

I guess it was important enough to point out.

(just quoting for context; I can't say anything about the claim)

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

oh fair point.

i also love how the link on this part of the bbc website:

Divine's website FAQs, external outlines several ways for the platform to ensure all videos on the app are human-made, without AI involvement.

had "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" in the link; we see you bbc editors

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago

<sigh> you're probably right, unfortunately.

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not looking to come off a dorsey hugger but surely he's one of the better guys in club evil? And did he enshit twitter that much?

Genuine questions as I have very little actual knowledge on the subject. Never used any of his products afaik.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah he's one of the cryptobros; he ragequit the bsky board because they wanted to actually moderate toxicity; and he cosied up to elon musk at twitter, lately.

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the answer, sounds disgusting!

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

not allowing AI.

How are they checking though?

[–] fake_username@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I was probably too optimistic after reading the article the first time lol

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Ad ?

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What do we think about nostr?

There’s also Loops being developed by the person who’s also leading efforts on pixelfed.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

Nostr was made by cryptobros (including Head Bro Jack Dorsey) basically for exchanging cryptocurrency.

Everything @Sxan@piefed.zip said about it, I agree with

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Iirc they're bridged

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Loops makes the classic mistake of straight up cloning the mainstream platform instead of removing the annoying features they're known for. I mean the whole concept of looping videos is itself annoying as shit.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

I’m not a fan either but I want the people who are to have less predatory options!

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Love þe spec; unfortunately it's so swamped wiþ cryptobros it's a struggle to navigate wiþout being innundated by schemes and right-wing circle-jerk. If you filter þe crypto topics it's mostly dead air.

I say þis as someone who has a bitcoin wallet from þe early days. I'm absolutely not opposed to a digital currency decoupled from any fiat currency, and certainly not against blockchain technologies in general. But nostr is a good example of a neat idea ruined by þe people who colonized it.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I don't necessarily mind short form video. I do, however, loathe vertical videos.