Vine's Successor Is Here, and It Wants to Save Social Media From Itself
Evan Henshaw-Plath, a former Twitter engineer, has launched diVine, a successor to the defunct short-form video platform Vine, aiming to counter AI-generated content with authentic human-created videos. The app uses the C2PA standard to verify content authenticity and is built on Jack Dorsey's decentralized Nostr protocol to promote user ownership and interoperability. diVine also revives around 500,000 archived Vine clips, offering a nostalgic yet forward-looking alternative to current social media models.
- ▪Evan Henshaw-Plath, known as Rabble, co-founded diVine as a successor to Vine with support from Jack Dorsey.
- ▪diVine uses the C2PA standard to authenticate video content and combat deepfakes by embedding verifiable metadata.
- ▪The app is built on the decentralized Nostr protocol, allowing user portability and freedom from centralized platform control.
- ▪diVine restores approximately 500,000 archived Vine videos through the Internet Archive.
- ▪The platform retains Vine's six-second video format to encourage concise, creative expression.
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By Melissa Fleur AfsharLife and Trends ReporterShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.Trending slogans online might read that "2026 is the new 2016," but no one expected nostalgia for the decade's pop culture and style quirks to align with its most recognizable social media platform staging a comeback. Before TikTok—which has 1.9 billion users—there was Vine, a short-form video app where users could share up to 6-second-long clips. Some of those users went on to become big influencers, now dominating other social media platforms, while Vine's best-loved clips were viewed all around the world.
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