Comment on Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public

fake_username@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  its backed by dorsey so it’ll be enshittified in two weeks

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  • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    \<sigh\> you’re probably right, unfortunately.

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  • MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the answer, sounds disgusting!

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  • Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

    (just quoting for context; I can’t say anything about the claim)

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    • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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• StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  not allowing AI.

  How are they checking though?

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  • fake_username@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was probably too optimistic after reading the article the first time lol

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