Divine Officially Arrives on the App Store and Google Play, Replacing the Vine Short Video App

JAKARTA - Divine, the successor application of Vine which is supported by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is now available on the App Store and Google Play Store. This application re-provides hundreds of thousands of videos that were popular on Vine.

Before it was released, Divine was introduced in a beta version at the end of last year. At that time, the development team reconstructed to restore 500,000 archived Vine videos from nearly 100,000 popular Vine creators.

Divine is an application that is presented for creators and users who miss the six-second short video format. In addition to old content, users can also upload new videos to the application.

Interestingly, Divine is not just a nostalgia container for old users. This platform is built using the Nostr open protocol to support a more transparent social media ecosystem.

The team behind Divine is also experimenting with integrating their technology with the AT and ActivityPub protocols. This allows cross-platform interaction with other services such as Bluesky and Mastodon.

Evan Henshaw-Plath, one of the team's developers, emphasized that this project was born out of a strong demand from the community. Users want a place that is free from the distractions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based garbage content or often called AI slop.

"It's actually the Vine users who say this is much more important than nostalgia," said Henshaw-Plath. In addition to video recovery, engagement systems such as the number of views and interactions from the past are also restored.

Now, Divine is ready to compete with various short video applications that offer simplicity. Their main focus is to return social media to a more human and original form of conversation.