'divine' Is A Jack Dorsey-backed Vine Reboot For 2025

Nearly a decade aft going offline, Vine is (sort of) backmost and, successful a genuinely bizarre twist, Jack Dorsey is astatine slightest partially responsible. An early Twitter worker has released a beta type of a rebooted Vine — now called "Divine" — that revives nan app's six-second videos and includes a information of nan original app's archive.

The task comes from Evan Henshaw-Plath, a erstwhile Twitter worker who goes by "Rabble," and has backing from Dorsey's nonprofit "and Other Stuff," which costs experimental societal media apps built connected nan unfastened root nostr protocol. Rabble has truthful acold managed to resurrect about 170,000 videos from nan original Vine acknowledgment to an aged archive created earlier Twitter unopen down nan app in 2017. In an FAQ connected Divine's website, he says that he besides hopes to reconstruct "millions" of personification comments and floor plan photos associated pinch those original posts arsenic well.

But Divine is much than conscionable a location for decade-old clips. New users tin create six-second looping videos of their ain for nan platform. The app besides has galore elements that will beryllium acquainted to group who person utilized Bluesky aliases different decentralized platforms, including customizable controls for contented moderation and aggregate provender algorithms to take from. The site's FAQ says Divine plans to support custom, user-created algorithms too.

Divine is besides taking a beautiful beardown stance against AI-generated content. The app will person built-in AI discovery tools that will adhd badges to contented that's been verified arsenic not created aliases edited pinch AI tools. And, according to TechCrunch, nan app will artifact uploads of suspected AI content.

"We're successful nan mediate of an AI takeover of societal media," Divine explains connected its website. New apps for illustration Sora are wholly AI-generated. TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram are progressively flooded pinch AI slop—videos that look existent but were ne'er captured by a camera, group who don't exist, scenarios that ne'er happened. Divine is fighting back. We're creating a abstraction wherever quality productivity is celebrated and protected, wherever you tin spot that what you're watching was made by a existent personification pinch a existent camera, not generated by an algorithm."

While each that whitethorn sound intriguing, Divine has a agelong measurement to spell earlier it tin execute each that. The app hasn't made it onto either app shop yet, though it's already added 10,000 group to an iOS beta, according to its founder. In nan meantime, you tin besides browse immoderate of nan app's videos, including immoderate aged Vine posts, connected its website, though not each of nan videos are moving decently astatine nan moment.

Still, immoderate benignant of reboot is bully news for fans of nan original, who person agelong hoped nan app mightiness make a comeback. Elon Musk has suggested much than once that he would revive Vine successful immoderate way, but has yet to travel through.