"As TechCrunch reports, the rebooted platform, dubbed diVine, will include over 100,000 archived videos from the platform, likely only a small fraction of the platform's original database. Vine had over 200 million active monthly users in its heyday ten years ago, but was shut down in 2016. But the reboot has a hidden ace up its sleeve: AI-generated content is banned outright, and any suspected use of AI will be flagged and prevented from being posted - a panacea for an internet that's been overrun with lazy AI slop."
"The old trove of Vine videos was painstakingly archived by a group called Archive Time, a "loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers, and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage." Now, early Twitter employee Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath, who works for Dorsey's nonprofit "And Other Stuff," led the charge to recreate the once-beloved video platform by carefully extracting this archive and making it available online once again."
""So basically, I'm like, can we do something that's kind of nostalgic?" Henshaw-Plath told TechCrunch. "Can we do something that takes us back, that lets us see those old things, but also lets us see an era of social media where you could either have control of your algorithms, or you could choose who you follow, and it's just your feed, and where you know that it's a real person that recorded the video?""
diVine publishes more than 100,000 archived six-second Vine videos, representing only a fraction of the original database that once saw over 200 million monthly users. Archive Time, a loose collective of archivists and programmers, painstakingly preserved the video trove. Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath extracted the archive and made it available through Jack Dorsey's nonprofit And Other Stuff. The reboot enforces a strict ban on AI-generated content, flagging and preventing suspected AI posts. The relaunch emphasizes nostalgia, user-controlled feeds, and human-created short-form videos as an alternative to algorithm-driven, AI-filled social feeds.
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