It seems like the stars have finally aligned and Vine is making an official comeback, with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey heading up a revival that comes bundled with one key rule.
Despite only being active for just under five years, few social media platforms can say that they've made quite the same impact as Vine, as it's long since been eulogised with many mourning its untimely death.
Before TikTok was the king of short-form video content there was Vine, which limited its users to six-second clips that they could then share with the world. It gave some of social media's biggest creators their first platform, with names like David Dobrick, Jake and Logan Paul, and Drew Gooden being some of the app's most prominent successes.
Vine was purchased by Twitter for $30 million shortly after it was first released in 2012, but uploads were eventually disabled in later 2016, with the app shutting up shop completely in January 2017 due to an inability to generate revenue.
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People have solely relied on YouTube's famous Vine compilations for access to their favorite videos in the eight years since its closure, but that might finally be coming to an end thanks to an exciting new announcement.
As reported by Popculturenews, phoenix app 'Divine' is taking everything you loved about Vine and putting it a new package, led by Evan Henshaw-Plath (Rabble) who worked on the original app, and made possible with funding from Jack Dorsey.
"Experience the raw, unfiltered creativity of real people sharing genuine moments in 6-second loops," reads the app's mission statement of sorts, adding that it's "built on decentralized technology, owned by no one, controlled by everyone."
It follows the exact same six-second format, and also revives anywhere between 150,000 and 200,000 videos from the Vine archive that's been sitting dormant for years, meaning that over 60,000 creators can have their old content brought back to life.
Additionally, you can link your old accounts to the platform in order to recover your videos, file DCMA takedowns on anyone else uploading your content, and even add any other old Vines that might have been lost in the archival process.
It does also have a key rule that will differentiate it from almost every other social media platform right now, as Divine strictly prohibits the sharing of AI generated content, using verification technology from The Guardian Project to ensure all videos were captured on smartphones.
This ensures that its ethos of 'real people sharing genuine moments' is upheld, and is especially prevalent considering Elon Musk's attempts earlier this year to 'revive' Vine through an entirely AI generated feed of Grok Imagine videos.
Many people believe that what made Vine so great was the short portals into people's lives, where videos didn't necessarily need to be grand or even all that interesting, but genuine all the same.
Sign-ups are currently locked to existing Nostr users as the app is still in beta, but hopefully it'll open up to the public again soon so that everyone can start sharing once more. You can still have a browse through the Discovery feed though, and you might catch one or two of your old favorites.