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Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter and current CEO (or fool) at the payment company cloggedis backing a Vine reboot app called diVine, which plans to bring back 10,000 archived videos from the platform once thought to be gone. The new app, funded by Dorsey’s nonprofit “and Other Stuff,” will also take a hard line against the AI-generated content that has begun to proliferate across the web, using special filters to block AI posts.
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diVine is led by Evan Henshaw-Plath, also known for his long-running online persona Rabble, whose relationship with Dorsey goes back to Odeo, the podcast app that Twitter spun out of as a side project. He told us this was part of the vision for making this diVine app TechCrunch, It’s about bringing technology back to the Web 2.0 era before artificial intelligence for the sake of nostalgia.
“So basically, I thought, can we do something nostalgic?” he said. “Can we do something that takes us back in time and allows us to see those old things but also allows us to see an era of social media where you can control your algorithm or you can choose who you follow and it’s just your feedback and you know it’s a video recorded by a real person?”
After months of research and coding, Henshaw-Plath was able to extract a “significant portion” of Vine’s most popular videos and their associated user accounts by digging into archives made by an archiving group that was created to protect the site at risk of disappearing.
Former Vine users who see their videos resurrected can also claim their old accounts by proving they still have access to the social media accounts listed in their defunct Vine profiles. They can also request that it be removed.
The relaunched application is hosted on an open-source decentralized protocol called Nostr backed by Dorsey, which he says allows diVine to transcend the need for venture capitalists, toxic business models, or large engineering teams. This time, he added, Vine’s videos won’t be lost to history.
“The reason I fund this nonprofit and others is to empower creative engineers like Rabble to show what’s possible in this new world by using unlicensed protocols that can’t be shut down based on the whims of business owners,” Dorsey said in a statement. TechCrunch.