diVine: Twitter founder brings short video app Vine back and bans AI videos

The short-video platform, which was popular even before TikTok, is making a comeback. The service, discontinued by Twitter in 2016, is not being revived itself, but on Thursday, November 13, 2025, the "diVine" platform, inspired by it, was launched. It is available in beta for iOS, Android, and in the browser. As with the original, diVine allows user videos of a maximum of six seconds, which play in a loop.

The service, offered by RabbleLabs, receives support from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's nonprofit organization "and Other Stuff". AI-generated scenes are forbidden to prevent "AI Slop", i.e., artificially produced content without creative value.

Short video platform without AI content

To verify this rule, provider RabbleLabs uses machine learning algorithms itself for verification. User reporting and "ProofMode" verification are also intended to help enforce it. The videos recorded in the app can also undergo a verification mode according to the FAQ to cryptographically ensure that a smartphone camera recorded the video.

Unlike competing offerings like Tiktok or Instagram, diVine does not store videos on centralized servers. Instead, the Nostr protocol is used to distribute content via a network of independent relays.

To prevent the feed from appearing too empty at the beginning, old videos from the Vine archive will also be available. An employee of "and Other Stuff" is already working according to Techcrunch to restore parts of the Vine archive. The backup created by the "Archive Team" group reportedly comprises around 40 to 50 GBytes.

At the time of publication of this article, the beta servers are overloaded, so no further registrations are possible for now. However, there is an option to be notified via email when the situation improves.

(jpw)