Overview
- Divine, which launched Wednesday on the App Store, Google Play, and the Nostr-powered Zapstore, is opening access through a waitlist and invite codes.
- The app includes about 500,000 classic Vine clips reconstructed by Evan Henshaw-Plath from community backups preserved by ArchiveTeam and the Internet Archive.
- Not all original engagement data could be recovered, and the team says restoration and metadata work are still in progress.
- To limit AI-generated posts, Divine requires in-app recording or C2PA-verified uploads, a provenance standard that tags how a video was created and edited.
- Funded by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit and structured as a public benefit company, Divine runs on the Nostr protocol and is testing links to Bluesky’s AT Protocol and possibly ActivityPub to keep creators in control without an ad-driven model.