Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public - BERITAJA

A caller task to bring backmost Vine’s six-second looping videos is now disposable for download connected the App Store and Google Play. Divine, arsenic this Vine reboot is called, offers entree to an archive of about 500,000 Vine videos, restored from a backup of the original service, and allows creators to station caller Vines erstwhile again.

Divine was financed by “and Other Stuff,” a nonprofit formed successful May 2025 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The non-profit is focused connected backing experimental unfastened root projects that person the imaginable to toggle shape the societal media landscape. Dorsey’s backing of Divine doesn’t make him a accepted investor since he’s not looking to get a return here. Rather, his extremity is to correct an earlier correction he made arsenic CEO of Twitter: shutting down Vine successful the first place.

To create Divine, Evan Henshaw-Plath, an early Twitter worker and member of “and Other Stuff,” explored the Vine archive. Henshaw-Plath, who goes by “Rabble” online, explained that overmuch of Vine’s contented was primitively backed up by a organization archiving task known arsenic the Archive Team.

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Those videos had been stored arsenic large, 40-50 GB binary files, which required Rabble to constitute large information scripts to fig retired really the files worked and really to reconstruct them, on pinch the personification engagement, for illustration the views, likes, and comments, that were associated pinch the original videos.

Not each information was capable to beryllium restored, but advancement has been made. The app initially launched to testers past November pinch immoderate 100,000 of Vine’s apical videos, past grew to about 300,000 videos conscionable up of today’s launch, Rabble told TechCrunch. Now, the app hosts about 500,000 videos from about 100,000 original Vine creators arsenic it becomes publically disposable for the first time.

The effort has attracted the attraction of respective early Vine creators, including Lele Pons, JimmyHere, MightyDuck, and Jack and Jack, among others. (Divine personification profiles are viewable connected the web, moreover if you don’t person the Divine mobile app.)

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Rabble said the first scheme was to quickly push retired the app aft immoderate first tests, but early Viners encouraged the squad to clasp off.

“It was really the Viners who were for illustration ‘no, nary — this is measurement much important than conscionable nostalgia,” he explains. The users said they wanted thing for illustration Vine that would reset societal media and select retired AI slop. “They’re the ones who told america to hold and get it right. And truthful that’s what we did.”

The squad rolled up their sleeves, revisited and rewrote the codification successful parts, and focused connected the app’s design.

The type of Divine launching coming is simply a consequence of those efforts, and includes features for illustration compilation mode, which reflects really overmuch of today’s youngest procreation grew up watching Vines. With this mode, group could create their ain lists of videos to make their ain compilations.

To usage compilations, you could sojourn a hashtag, for illustration #cats, and it will autoplay a watercourse of matching Vine videos. You could extremity the watercourse to interact pinch the content, for illustration reposting aliases liking the videos, aliases you could conscionable beryllium backmost and watch.

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Another cardinal facet of Divine’s worth proposition is its deficiency of AI-generated content.

“I decided that I was going to select retired AI contented because I personally don’t for illustration seeing AI content. I don’t for illustration emotion tricked,” Rabble says. “I don’t for illustration the thought that tons of contented could beryllium made very quickly and pinch small humanity aliases thought.”

To support the web free from this unwanted content, aliases “AI slop,” arsenic it’s often called, DiVine requires users to either grounds videos straight successful the app aliases verify really uploaded videos were created utilizing C2PA, an unfastened manufacture modular that establishes the root and the edits to integer content.

Beyond offering the acquisition of bringing backmost Vine, the app’s different ngo is to popularize unfastened protocols — thing that delivers connected Rabble’s imagination for reclaiming societal media from the tech giants. Divine itself is built connected the unfastened societal protocol Nostr, and the squad is experimenting pinch integrating the unfastened root AT Protocol, which powers Bluesky. In the future, Divine whitethorn besides merge pinch the ActivityPub protocol, which underpins replacement societal networks for illustration Mastodon and Flipboard, and is built into Meta’s Threads.

Divine has nary gross exemplary and is system arsenic a nationalist use corporation. But Rabble believes that it could let integer creators to return backmost immoderate power complete their online presence, which they could monetize via marque deals aliases collabs, arsenic they do currently. He besides likes the Patreon exemplary for supporting creators straight and the thought of a Pro relationship that would supply further features.

“Many of america came from Vine, and it was the opening of everything,” said OG Viner, Lele Pons, about the app’s relaunch. “An iconic app. It was specified a cardinal infinitesimal successful my ain individual journey, and successful net culture, it makes maine truthful happy to spot these early classics brought backmost to life, and to person the chance to make caller ones.”

Divine is disposable arsenic a free download connected the App Store, Google Play, and the Nostr-powered Zapstore. Initially, it will rotation retired entree to those connected the waitlist and will fto others successful gradually via the usage of induce codes.