Vine's Successor Is Here, and It Wants to Save Social Media From Itself
Summary
A new app called diVine has been launched as a modern version of the old short-video app Vine. It aims to bring back Vine’s style of six-second videos while using new technology to verify that videos are real and not AI fakes.Key Facts
- Vine was a popular app for 6-second videos before TikTok became dominant.
- Vine was sold to X (formerly Twitter) and then discontinued five years ago, losing much of its original content.
- Evan Henshaw-Plath, an early Twitter team member, created diVine to revive Vine’s concept and restore around 500,000 old Vine clips.
- DiVine uses technology called C2PA, which embeds a digital "watermark" to prove a video is authentic and not AI-generated.
- Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s former CEO, supports diVine and helped build it on Nostr, a decentralized system that doesn’t rely on any central company.
- DiVine emphasizes user rights allowing more control, such as taking data or profiles across platforms, unlike typical social media apps.
- The six-second video limit in diVine is inspired by Vine's format and seen as a creative challenge, similar to Twitter’s original character limits.
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