Vine never allowed more than a 6 second clip. Other platforms immediately included short video formats upon Vines success, but added more flexibility to content creators. When content creators got "Vine famous" they moved to other platforms that allowed for flexibility in content. Vine died when it had no more creators.

It is content and content creators that make a platform successful or not. It's why platforms like Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc., pay big creators millions of dollars for exclusive rights to their content. Anyone can make a content sharing platform, but they can't take content.

[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except that Vine did allow videos longer than 6 seconds.

I was big into Vine. Like it was the only thing I cared about for a period of time.

[–] poppy@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

That was only months before Twitter announced it would be slowly shutting it down in October. It was a last gasp, too little too late unfortunately. The article you posted even mentioned it was a reaction to creators posting “teasers” that lead watchers to other sites, where the creators were establishing, or had already established, a solid base.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

They seem to be hoping that now, with AI, they can. :-|

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

A ton of this!

I'm a way bigger fan of long-form content. I hardly even get any videos suggested on TT that are less than 3-5 minutes (mostly history and philosophy type stuff). It's pretty awesome how good it is at recommending stuff you'll like!

I could never imagine watch strictly 6 sec videos. It's just not for me

[–] Flumpkin 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah I think paying the creators generously and allowing them to make a good living is how tiktok got off the ground so fast.

I really love the vine 6 sec sketch format but I only ever watches compilations on youtube. It's like a box of chocolate, you never know what you'll get, but eat enough of them... :D PS: Man this makes me nostalgic about those ancient times when everything wasn't going to shit yet