"As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine's six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's backing. On Thursday, a new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored from an older backup that was created before Vine's shutdown. The app won't just exist as a walk down memory lane; it will also allow users to create profiles and upload their own new Vine videos."
"DiVine's creation was financed by Jack Dorsey's nonprofit, " and Other Stuff," formed in May 2025. The new effort is focused on funding experimental open source projects and other tools that have the potential to transform the social media landscape. To build diVine, Evan Henshaw-Plath, an early Twitter employee and member of "and Other Stuff," explored the Vine archive. After Twitter announced it was shutting down the short video app in 2016, its videos were backed up by a group called the Archive Team."
diVine restores more than 100,000 Vine videos from a pre-shutdown backup and presents them in a Vine-like mobile app. The app enables users to create profiles and upload new six-second looping videos. diVine identifies suspected generative AI content and prevents flagged material from being posted. Funding for diVine came from Jack Dorsey's nonprofit, " and Other Stuff," created in May 2025 to back experimental open source social tools. Evan Henshaw-Plath (Rabble) extracted the archived files saved by the Archive Team, which had preserved Vine as large 40–50 GB binary files requiring conversion to be accessible.
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