In addition to hundreds of thousands of archive videos from the original Vine platform, Divine is now available on the App Store and Google Play with new videos. Here are the details.

Vine Has Returned as Divine

Social media users may remember Vine, the short video platform launched in June 2012 and immediately acquired by Twitter.

Vine allowed users to share looping videos of up to 6 seconds. Attracting artists and content creators, it reached over 200 million active users by the end of 2015.

However, after years of stagnation, Twitter shut down the app in 2017 and continued to keep the video catalog accessible until 2019.

A large portion of this catalog has returned in the new app Divine, developed by a Jack Dorsey-backed non-profit organization and Other Stuff.

The app was announced last year and remained in beta until it became available today on the App Store and Google Play.

According to TechCrunch, the launch of this Vine revival was the result of an intensive restructuring effort that involved rebuilding the original archive from large backup files and restoring related interaction data.

Evan Henshaw-Plath from the team behind Divine explained the transformation of Divine into a fully functional, relaunched video social network as follows:

“Actually, Viners said, ‘no, no — this is much more important than nostalgia,’” he explains. Users expressed that they wanted something that would reset social media and filter out AI pollution. “They told us to wait and do it right. And we did.”

Another interesting aspect of Divine is its infrastructure technology based on the open social media protocol Nostr, supported by Jack Dorsey.

TechCrunch notes that the team behind Divine is “experimenting with integration of the open-source AT Protocol that supports Bluesky” and that it could also integrate with the ActivityPub protocol, which supports alternative social networks like Mastodon and Flipboard and is integrated with Meta's Threads.

To learn more about Divine, follow this link.