Divine, a Vine-style video app led by early Twitter employee Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath, has dropped its invite-only requirement and opened registration to everyone. The move, roughly three months after launch, aims to attract a wider wave of users to the app's revival of six-second looping videos, a format that defined much of internet culture before the original Vine shut down nearly a decade ago. It arrives amid a broader wave of nostalgia for early social media platforms, which could help Divine attract new users as it drops its access barrier.

The app is not officially linked to Vine but includes a "classic" feed restoring more than two million original Vine clips, and is funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, though he holds no equity in the venture. Divine runs on the decentralised, open-source nostr protocol and only allows videos filmed with its own in-app camera, using built-in AI-detection tools to keep out AI-generated content. Henshaw-Plath says the app is designed to avoid the centralised control and "enshittification" that affected earlier platforms, and he is exploring monetisation tools for creators, an area where the original Vine was widely seen to have failed its community.