The app lets users create six-second looping videos and hosts more than two million classic videos.
  • Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2 months

    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.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

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

  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
    2 months

    What do we think about nostr?

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

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 months

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

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

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 months

      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.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
      2 months

      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.

      • Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2 months

        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)

        • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2 months

          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

      • Mirror Giraffe@piefed.socialEnglish
        2 months

        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.

        • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2 months

          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.