Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey launches diVine, an open-source short-video app Vine reboot
A new reboot of the long discontinued Vine short-videos sharing platform has launched under the name diVine, backed by Twitter co founder Jack Dorsey through his nonprofit and Other Stuff, and built on open source foundations using the nostr protocol. The project brings back Vine’s six second looping format, allows users to create new clips, and restores a substantial part of the original archive. At launch, the app offers more than 100,000 recovered Vine videos, and project lead Rabble plans to revive millions of archived comments and user profile images as well.
The platform adopts decentralized social media concepts similar to Bluesky, giving users more control over moderation settings and offering several feed algorithms, with plans to support user created options. Unlike other social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, diVine has taken a strong stance against AI generated content by using a detection system that marks verified human made videos and blocks uploads suspected of using AI.
The app is not yet in official stores, but about 10,000 users are already testing the iOS beta, and both new and archived clips can be viewed on the website, though some older videos may still fail to load.
- Video Sharing Tool
- Free
- Open Source
External links
- Short-form Looping Videos on NostrdiVine • Official source
- Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archiveTechCrunch
- 'Divine' is a Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot for 2025Engadget
- After shutting down Vine in 2017, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey invests in a reboot of the app with more than 10,000 archived six-second videosFortune
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all the resources this moron can assemble and he backs vine, which he killed. Put your support in LOOPS - it's fediverse and already out there trying to make this happen on a large scale.
NOSTR is full of nazis, hate and crypto. no one is going to onboard that shit.
Nice W from Dorsey, and the app respects your freedom but sadly outsoruced to proprietary entrapment. After MElon enshittifed Ex-Twitter by paywalling both new and existing users, falsely censoring
Signal as spam, and boosting He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, it's time for Dorsey's renaissance with libre social media, along with 
Bluesky.
It's time for the move away from proprietary social control media platforms (such as
Facebook, 
Instagram, 
Reddit, 
TikTok, 
X, 
WhatsApp, 
YouTube) and move to a decentralized ones like 
Immich, 
Lemmy, 
PeerTube, 
Pixelfed, in addition to the aforementioned BlueSky, Divine, and Signal above.
As per Cory Doctorow and Eben Moglen, they will burn and die. Only fools take information from proprietary social control media, which destabilizes society as a result.
Good response, but also, just why? I'm surprised AlternativeTo doesn't block you for link spamming. Not saying they should. Just saying that all those links are unnecessary overkill. Allow people to do their own research without leading them to links that confirm your views.
Like, I agree with pretty much everything you typed, except the Dorky, Bluesky and diVine parts. Never give a billionaire the benefit of the doubt right away. It took 10 years for the negative effects of the Zuck to start sprouting its ugly shoots, and way longer for the Gatekeeper.
Dorsey got about a $1B from Twitter selling, it's enough to run this project (that runs on Google Cloud) for few years from now even if it gets a little popular, but there is a long road to being profitable (or even being cost-effective), and it must need more than only 100k videos (of the dozen millions videos on Vine, when it used to briefly being popular about 10 years ago, before TikTok erase it).
But if an human needs to verify every single video to reject AI-generated, violating copyright, obscene or duplicate ones, it won't reach a decent amount very soon.
It also need a good (AI-based) recommendation algorithm appealing, and some random feed like what is it actually. It certainly has been announced a little too soon.
At some point, if Divine becomes popular, they will have to develop tools that recognize AI content. AI slop wave is coming for every popular service, and I am not sure if anybody can avoid it unless users are required to pay for accounts. If the uploader is required to pay like $5 a month, he will not be able to create 10000 bot accounts and upload variations of the same video at almost no cost. I really hope YouTube will institute something similar, or they are going to sink when AI generation costs get much lower.