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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, is backing a new project called diVine, which aims to revive the spirit of Vine, the popular six-second video app that was shut down in 2016. DiVine provides access to over 100,000 archived Vine videos and allows users to create new profiles and upload videos. Unlike traditional social media platforms, diVine will flag suspected generative AI content to maintain the authenticity of user-generated videos. The app is built on Nostr, a decentralized protocol, allowing developers to create apps without needing venture capital backing. DiVine’s creation was driven by Evan Henshaw-Plath, an early Twitter employee, who reconstructed Vine’s archive to develop this new app. The project, funded by Dorsey’s nonprofit ‘and Other Stuff,’ aims to offer a nostalgic social media experience where users have more control over their content and the algorithms that display it.