In January there was a splashy announcement of a new European social media app, wsocial.eu, which seems to be promising to be an EU like Twitter app which satisfies the dreams of EU elites. Turns out it’s a ATprotocol app/instance with verified credentials and lots of weird marketing. I don’t think anyone on here would be interested is using W Social but you might find this read about the project interesting.

The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals

Video manifesto! Why I built divine.video

It rains a lot in New Zealand, but i'm not sure folks really understand how much. 739mm of rain just fell on the Tasman region in a weekend. London gets ~600mm in an entire YEAR. That's London's whole annual rainfall — plus an extra 140mm — dropped on one NZ hillside in about two days. Needless to say, there was flooding. New Zealand's main changes it'll see due to climate change is even more rain. So this is just a start.

Divine 1.0.14 is live on iOS. Three weeks of work since 1.0.12 — more control, cleaner loops, fewer weird edges. This one’s for the people who notice the details. Creator tools got a serious upgrade. The editor now has clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, audio extraction from your own clips, sharper exported layers, better split/edit state handling, and fewer ways to lose your publish flow when bouncing between recorder and editor. Clip trash also gives you a 30-day safety net before deleted clips are really gone. Feeds should feel more alive and less haunted. For You routes through recommendations, Popular has better source and time controls, Explore does a better job surfacing fresh diVines, and counts for likes, loops, views, reposts, and reused videos stay steadier. Playback got smoother too — better first-frame behavior, cleaner overlays, stronger cache handling, and more graceful recovery when a video gets fussy. DMs got a little more human. Emoji reactions landed, markdown-style formatting works, the composer grows as you write, the full emoji picker is wired up, send buttons are more accessible, and message recovery is tougher when delivery only half-succeeds. Notifications got a big cleanup pass. Taps now land in the right place more often, comment replies are classified more clearly, foreground and local notifications behave more consistently, unread badges stop getting wiped just because you left the page, and iOS alert pushes should no longer double-buzz you. Less noise. More signal. Profiles, search, and safety got sharper. Profile text and lists linkify better, profile reporting is easier to find, banner/avatar flows are smoother, verified account chips are clearer, search sorting is stronger, blocked users stay out of category feeds, adult-content settings behave more consistently after verification, and our “do not train” C2PA assertion is now always included. There’s a lot under the hood too: stronger account recovery, safer session refresh, better invite and collaborator recovery, sturdier upload retries, more reliable view tracking, cleaner notification settings, improved reset-password flow, and a bunch of crash and race-condition fixes that should make the app feel calmer even when the network is not. Short version: better making, better messaging, better feeds, better notifications, and fewer tiny betrayals from your phone. Welcome Home. Install Divine 1.0.14 iOS:

App Store

Divine Video App - App Store

Download Divine Video by Verse Communications Inc on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like Divine Video.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.openvine.app&hl=en Zapstore:

Zapstore

Divine — Zapstore

Divine is a new 6-second looping video app, inspired by Vine, with a commitment to preserving authentic human creativity. AI slop is not permitted ...

GitHub:

GitHub

Releases · divinevideo/divine-mobile

Contribute to divinevideo/divine-mobile development by creating an account on GitHub.

Somebody put my email address in to their tiktok shop account, so i'm now getting order confirmation and shipping updates for the random things they're buying and sending to some farm house in western Kentucky. I'm not sure what or anything i should do about it, but i do find it amusing.

Languages are interesting... I just did an interview for a Miami tv station talking about @Divine HQ . It was fun, but because it's Miami we did it once in English and once in Spanish. I know that language shapes so much more than the words. Because this interview was parallel, we basically did two versions of it. In theory, same people, same interview, the questions would be the same. But in reality the whole flow and narrative was different. In English it was more the story of the startup, vine, what happened to it, how divine keeps out ai slop. But in Spanish it followed different cultural narratives for the same interview. It was a story of people, nostalgia, what it means to go back to older social media, etc... Neither way of story telling is wrong, just different. And both felt so natural in the language they used.

There are so many vine compilations from the old classics. Now there are compilations of all the new divines!

Hey android users, can you write reviews? also point out how you just need to use Nostr to get around the invite codes? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.openvine.app

You win some, you lose some. Hey Nostiches please go and review divine in the AppStore and play store and of course zapstore too! These reviews really help. #grownostr

This morning i woke up to see that npub1xffrd6randt5escsvhfk7pm937dsjvgwcg4pa97rjx3rvdh8llkqgqjl6m (Gary Vaynerchuk) is now on Nostr via @Divine HQ . We've got a personal site for him hosted

GaryVee on Divine

Watch GaryVee's videos on Divine

and a nip05 of _@garyvee.divine.video For folks who don't know, he's probably the leading expert in social media and branding / marketing. I remember Gary back in the early days of web 2.0, when he got a start promoting his dad's wine shop. He's somebody who just focuses on working on the apps that work for him and not somebody who fights against the platforms. He's not here because of the protocol, or the freedom, he's here because he thinks divine is a potential important social platform and it happens to use Nostr. Come for the silly videos and stay for the freedom. #growNostr

I guess I should have expected this when I named my app divine.

This is crazy, 2 days after launching in the appstore, there's so much new divine.video content being posted that i can't keep up and watch all the new videos.

To understand Vine and Divine better i sat down with Taylor Lorenz and Bridget Todd. We went over the rise and fall of vine and how powerful it was for the emergence of social media.