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There may finally be a reboot that many people can get behind, but it won't come from Hollywood.
Evan Henshaw-Plath, one of Twitter's original employees, is bringing back beloved video-sharing app Vine.
A newly revived six-second video app called Divine aims to bring back the authentic human creativity of the original platform that spawned viral moments like “What is it?“, “It's Wednesday, guys.” And “Oh my god they were roommates“
For this Divine promises to share “real videos without AI.”
According to www.vrenture.com/A press release about the new app says it “flags suspicious GenAI content and prevents its publication.”
“Social media was social first and foremost. It's about people and our connections, not just pretty videos,” Evan Henshaw-Plath, aka Rabble, told the publication. Business Insider.
He said Divine is his “attempt to fight back against the enchiification” of the Internet and the mysterious algorithms of other social media apps.
The term “ensitification,” coined by Canadian author, activist, and CBC podcast host Cory Doctorow, refers to the deliberate decline of platforms in the name of profit, benefiting shareholders rather than users.
Vine fans may also be happy to know that Divine, which is currently in beta, has already restored over 100,000 archived videos hosted on the original platform.
Divine has received funding from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's And Other Stuff, a non-profit organization that seeks to fund open source projects that have the potential to change the world of social media.
Twitter acquired Vine in 2012, a year before the app debuted. In 2017, Twitter shut down the video-sharing platform, which Dorsey said had been its business since then. biggest regret.
It is noteworthy that Elon Musk, who owns X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has also expressed interest in revivi.ng Wine recently. Earlier this year he published on X that his team found the Vine video archive, but nothing has been announced or published since then.
