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Building lots of things with andotherstuff.org including divine.video and nos.social.
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rabble 13 hours ago
Divine 1.0.14 is live on iOS. Three weeks of work since 1.0.12 — more control, cleaner loops, fewer weird edges. This one’s for the people who notice the details. Creator tools got a serious upgrade. The editor now has clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, audio extraction from your own clips, sharper exported layers, better split/edit state handling, and fewer ways to lose your publish flow when bouncing between recorder and editor. Clip trash also gives you a 30-day safety net before deleted clips are really gone. Feeds should feel more alive and less haunted. For You routes through recommendations, Popular has better source and time controls, Explore does a better job surfacing fresh diVines, and counts for likes, loops, views, reposts, and reused videos stay steadier. Playback got smoother too — better first-frame behavior, cleaner overlays, stronger cache handling, and more graceful recovery when a video gets fussy. DMs got a little more human. Emoji reactions landed, markdown-style formatting works, the composer grows as you write, the full emoji picker is wired up, send buttons are more accessible, and message recovery is tougher when delivery only half-succeeds. Notifications got a big cleanup pass. Taps now land in the right place more often, comment replies are classified more clearly, foreground and local notifications behave more consistently, unread badges stop getting wiped just because you left the page, and iOS alert pushes should no longer double-buzz you. Less noise. More signal. Profiles, search, and safety got sharper. Profile text and lists linkify better, profile reporting is easier to find, banner/avatar flows are smoother, verified account chips are clearer, search sorting is stronger, blocked users stay out of category feeds, adult-content settings behave more consistently after verification, and our “do not train” C2PA assertion is now always included. There’s a lot under the hood too: stronger account recovery, safer session refresh, better invite and collaborator recovery, sturdier upload retries, more reliable view tracking, cleaner notification settings, improved reset-password flow, and a bunch of crash and race-condition fixes that should make the app feel calmer even when the network is not. Short version: better making, better messaging, better feeds, better notifications, and fewer tiny betrayals from your phone. Welcome Home. Install Divine 1.0.14 iOS: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.openvine.app&hl=en Zapstore: GitHub:
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rabble 2 weeks ago
Somebody put my email address in to their tiktok shop account, so i'm now getting order confirmation and shipping updates for the random things they're buying and sending to some farm house in western Kentucky. I'm not sure what or anything i should do about it, but i do find it amusing.
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rabble 3 weeks ago
Languages are interesting... I just did an interview for a Miami tv station talking about @Divine HQ . It was fun, but because it's Miami we did it once in English and once in Spanish. I know that language shapes so much more than the words. Because this interview was parallel, we basically did two versions of it. In theory, same people, same interview, the questions would be the same. But in reality the whole flow and narrative was different. In English it was more the story of the startup, vine, what happened to it, how divine keeps out ai slop. But in Spanish it followed different cultural narratives for the same interview. It was a story of people, nostalgia, what it means to go back to older social media, etc... Neither way of story telling is wrong, just different. And both felt so natural in the language they used.
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rabble 3 weeks ago
There are so many vine compilations from the old classics. Now there are compilations of all the new divines!
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rabble 3 weeks ago
You win some, you lose some. Hey Nostiches please go and review divine in the AppStore and play store and of course zapstore too! These reviews really help. #grownostr image
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rabble 3 weeks ago
This morning i woke up to see that npub1xffrd6randt5escsvhfk7pm937dsjvgwcg4pa97rjx3rvdh8llkqgqjl6m (Gary Vaynerchuk) is now on Nostr via @Divine HQ . We've got a personal site for him hosted and a nip05 of _@garyvee.divine.video For folks who don't know, he's probably the leading expert in social media and branding / marketing. I remember Gary back in the early days of web 2.0, when he got a start promoting his dad's wine shop. He's somebody who just focuses on working on the apps that work for him and not somebody who fights against the platforms. He's not here because of the protocol, or the freedom, he's here because he thinks divine is a potential important social platform and it happens to use Nostr. Come for the silly videos and stay for the freedom. #growNostr
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rabble 0 months ago
I guess I should have expected this when I named my app divine. image
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rabble 1 month ago
This is crazy, 2 days after launching in the appstore, there's so much new divine.video content being posted that i can't keep up and watch all the new videos.
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rabble 1 month ago
To understand Vine and Divine better i sat down with Taylor Lorenz and Bridget Todd. We went over the rise and fall of vine and how powerful it was for the emergence of social media.
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rabble 1 month ago
Well turns out we stumbled in to how to #grownostr with the way folks are excited about @Divine HQ This guy npub1rdh9htjt6eryws8968lxljnjfaa7wa93afnwtg7zgw0gyawplcqq8vwzjw is considering getting a divine tattoo! Would that be the first nostr tattoo? Somebody's got to have done it already.
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rabble 1 month ago
Do It For Divine! No invite codes for nostr, we're live! Permissionless happiness.
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rabble 1 month ago
Something fundamentally has changed again recently. Prompts for agentic coding is moving form telling the agents what to build, to a process of telling the agents a story about why we're building, the intention and meaning of the project. This is a massive step forward we're just take.
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rabble 2 months ago
Just over 1% of Bluesky users are on servers not controlled by the Bluesky company. That’s not the promise of decentralization they’ve promised.
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rabble 2 months ago
What if social media hadn't become centralised and controlled by Facebook? This week I talk to @Ben Werdmuller about how he built Elgg, a social network, at the same time as thefacebook, and then how the history of social media evolved from there.
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rabble 3 months ago
Building new protocol based social media is just the start. Sustaining and growing them is also very hard. Bluesky’s been struggling with declining daily active users over the last year. We see similar struggles in Nostr at a smaller scale. image