A brand new app seen as a non secular successor to short-form video service Vine has been launched to the general public.
Very like the unique, Divine lets customers create and share movies that are simply six seconds lengthy and repeat on a loop.
The brand new app additionally hosts greater than two million unique Vine movies and – in a bid to additional distance itself from different platforms – bans content material made by AI.
Divine’s founder, former Twitter worker Evan Henshaw-Plath, advised the BBC he needed to create the app as a result of he felt social media wanted “a reset”.
“I wish to see it rival different apps as a result of I believe we’ve gone awry,” he mentioned in an interview just a few weeks earlier than the general public launch.
He mentioned it was vital that there was no AI-generated content material on Divine, including he was “sick and bored with seeing movies and never figuring out whether or not it was actual”.
“I need to have the ability to have enjoyable and never must second guess these items,” he mentioned.
At its peak, Vine had greater than 200 million month-to-month energetic customers and helped launch the careers of a number of the web’s largest stars.
Jake Paul and Lele Pons are two of those that made their names on the platform earlier than it was shut down by its proprietor Twitter in 2017.
Divine is backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who had a senior position on the social media platform when it bought the Vine in 2012.
It’s constructed on a decentralised system referred to as Nostr, which means it isn’t managed by a single firm in the identical manner as platforms corresponding to TikTok or Instagram.
This implies customers can doubtlessly take their accounts and content material with them to different companies that use the identical system, relatively than being locked into one platform.
An analogous strategy has been utilized by X rivals Bluesky and Mastodon.
