Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine is launching to the public

A new project to recover six-second videos from Vine is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play. Divine, as Vine Reboot is called, provides access to an archive of nearly 500,000 Vine videos, restored from a backup of the original service, and allows creators to post new Vine videos again.

Divine was funded by “and other things” A non-profit organization founded in May 2025 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The nonprofit focuses on funding experimental open source projects that have the potential to change the social media landscape. Dorsey’s backing of Divine doesn’t make him a traditional investor because he’s not looking to get a return here. Rather, his goal is to correct a previous mistake he made as CEO of Twitter: Close Fine In the first place.

To create divineEvan Henshaw Plath, one of Twitter’s first employees and Member of “and other things“, Explore the Vine archive. Henshaw-Plath, who uses online ‘Rabble’, explained that much of Vine’s content was originally supported by a community archiving project known as Archive team.

These videos were stored as large binary files of 40 to 50 GB, which required Rabble to write big data scripts to figure out how the files worked and how to rebuild them, along with the user interaction, such as views, likes, and comments, that was associated with the original videos.

It was not possible to recover all the data, but progress was made. The app initially launched to testers last November with about 100,000 of their top Vine videos, then grew to about 300,000 videos before launching today, Rabble told TechCrunch. Now, the app is hosting nearly 500,000 videos from nearly 100,000 original Vine creators as it becomes publicly available for the first time.

This effort caught the attention of many early Vine creators, including Lily Pons, Jimmy here, Mighty Duckand Jack and Jackamong other things. (Divine user profiles are viewable on the web, even if you don’t have the Divine mobile app.)

Rable said the initial plan was to launch the app quickly after some initial testing, but early Finerz encouraged the team to postpone.

“It was actually the Fenners who were saying: ‘No, no – this is much more important than just nostalgia,’” he explains. Users said they wanted something like Vine that would reset social media and filter out AI slowdowns. “They were the ones who told us to wait and do it right. And that’s what we did.”

The team rolled up their sleeves, reconsidered and rewrote the code in parts, and focused on designing the application.

Today’s launch release of Divine is a result of those efforts, and includes features like Collection Mode, which reflects how today’s younger generation has grown up watching Vines. Using this mode, people can create their own lists of videos to create their own collections.

To use Collections, you can visit a hashtag, like #cats, and it will automatically play a stream of matching Vine videos. You can pause the stream to engage with the content, like reposting or liking videos, or you can just sit back and watch.

Another key aspect of Divine Value Show is its lack of AI-generated content.

“I decided I was going to filter out AI content because I personally don’t like seeing AI content. I don’t like feeling cheated,” Rable says. “I don’t like the idea that I can create a lot of content very quickly and with little humanity or thought.”

To keep the network free of this spam, or “AI slop,” as it’s often called, DiVine requires users to either record videos directly in the app or check how their uploaded videos were created using C2PAan open industry standard that defines the origin of digital content and its modifications.

In addition to providing a re-Vine experience, the app’s other mission is to popularize open protocols — something it’s been working on Rubble’s vision for reclaiming social media From the technology giants. Divine itself is built on the open social protocol Nostr, and the team is experimenting with integrating the open source AT protocol, which powers Bluesky. In the future, Divine may also integrate with the ActivityPub protocol, which supports alternative social networks like Mastodon and Flipboard, and is built into Meta’s Threads.

Divine has no revenue model and is organized as a public benefit corporation. But Rable believes it could allow digital creators to regain some control over their online presence, which they can monetize via brand deals or collaborations, as they currently do. He also likes Patreon’s model of supporting creators directly and the idea of ​​a professional account that would offer additional features.

“A lot of us came from Vine, and that was the start of it,” OG Viner, Lele Pons, said about the app’s relaunch. “It’s a special app. It was a seminal moment in my personal journey, and in internet culture, I’m so happy to see these early classics brought back to life, and to have the opportunity to create new works.”

Divine is available as a free download on the App Store, Google Play, and Nostr Close the curtains. Initially, access will be rolled out to people on the waiting list and others will gradually be allowed in via the use of invitation codes.