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Title: Jack Dorsey Funds diVine, a Vine Reboot That Includes Vine's Video
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Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/13/2247...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: As generative AI content
starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine's six-second
looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's backing. On
Thursday, a new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000
archived Vine videos, restored from an older backup that was created before
Vine's shutdown. The app won't just exist as a walk down memory lane; it will
also allow users to create profiles and upload their own new Vine videos.
However, unlike on traditional social media, where AI content is often
haphazardly labeled, diVine will flag suspected generative AI content and
prevent it from being posted. According to TechCrunch, a volunteer
preservation group called the Archive Team saved Vine's content when it shut
down in 2016. The only problem was that everything was stored in massive 40-
50 GB binary blob files that were basically unusable for casual viewing. Evan
Henshaw-Plath (who goes by the name Rabble), an early Twitter employee and
member of Jack Dorsey's nonprofit "and Other Stuff," dug into those backup
files to try and salvage as much as he could. He spent months writing big-
data extraction scripts, reverse-engineering how the archived binaries were
structured, and reconstructing the original video files, old user info, view
counts, and more. "I wasn't able to get all of them out, but I was able to
get a lot out and basically reconstruct these Vines and these Vine users, and
give each person a new user [profile] on this open network," he said. Rabble
estimates that through this process he was able to successfully recover
150,000-200,000 Vine videos from around 60,000 creators. diVine then rebuilt
user profiles on top of the decentralized Nostr protocol so creators can
reclaim their accounts, request takedowns, or upload missing videos. You can
check out the app for yourself at diVine.video. It's available in beta form
on both iOS and Android.

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