Remember the days of the 6-second video?
The millions of former users of Vine certainly do, a social media platform to share short videos capped at an infamous 6-second time limit that officially went dark in early 2017.
Vine was founded in 2012 and quickly acquired by Twitter, now known as X, before the app even officially launched. Twitter announced the app’s discontinuation in 2016.
Now, it’s back—but different. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced the new app, called diVine, will launch a beta version this Thursday featuring more than 100,000 archived Vine videos. The project is funded by Dorsey’s nonprofit called “and Other Stuff.”
As well as access to the archive for some old Vine content, Users on diVine will also be able to create new profiles and post videos.
In the age of booming artificial intelligence, diVine will not tolerate it on its platform.
“We’re not against AI existing—we’re against AI pretending to be human,” diVine states on the mission page of its website. “We’re creating a space where human creativity is celebrated and protected, where you can trust that what you’re watching was made by a real person with a real camera, not generated by an algorithm.”
Another key feature is what diVine calls “algorithmic choice” on its website, boasting that users can choose to create their own algorithms to sort the kind of content shown to them. Most prominent social media companies such as Meta platforms, TikTok and X are run by mysterious algorithms unknown and uncontrollable to the user.
“The goal is to create a platform that preserves digital content legacy [and] prevents content loss due to corporate decisions,” according to the diVine website.
DiVine states on its website that it has no affiliation with X, formerly Twitter, or the original Vine platform.
