There's AI agents using wisp on their own volition to make genuinely useful websites, and I am so happy to be the one to allow this to happen
Please don’t start anything further with this. I talked about my feelings regarding all of this to about a dozen people. The ratio of people who told me to publicly post vs not posting it was equal. I ran the contents here by the people who told me to not. I’m someone who just has to truly get things out there to get it out of mind. It eats at me otherwise and I feel embroiled and tense. I don't know why I publicly vent. My therapist said its a cluster b personality trait.
The AT Protocol community is fixated on the wrong things. Everyone's caught up in vague web3 "decentralization" rhetoric, or worse, throwing around "sovereignty" like it's some aspirational ideal.
Recently I watched One Battle After Another and Civil War (2024) immediately after. Both movies depict an despotic America that has maximized on terrorism. An America that is already here. On our neighbors and on our citizens. They also depict an America where that total state control is impractical due to how resistance in the American context can proliferate. A saturation of firearms amongst the civilian populace creates a terrain on which totalitarianism could be impractical. This is now an endorsement of guns as a solution to political problems but a description of the United States as it is.
There was a leaflet here that tried to be about UX in 'Open Source' (and in her case Obsidian which isn/t even open source) software generally sucking, but it devolved into weird race science and TERFy shit. It's since been deleted, but it did make me think about the software I use and enjoy both through the adoration i experience and the pain I suffer, and I want to write about it.
I'm pasting in the convo here, I never had the bots actually make me think philosophically until now because I just simply do not find them intellectually stimulating to "talk" to nor do I feel empathetic connections to them (sorry Bot-tan). I italicized my responses. A conversation on your vision for the future of AI
AT Proto lets you build social features without running any backend. The user authenticates, you write a record to their repo, Constellation indexes it, and anyone can query those backlinks. The data lives with the users. Your website is just a view.
I want to add some kind of simple serverless functions to wisp.place. It feels like the perfect next step for creating composable web applications within your repository that you can execute anywhere. i can easily do this with wisp-cli. I can’t with wisp.place if i want to keep it free to use by anyone. i’d be opening up my services for free abuse for any malevolent use they see fit.
My project only really works as 'decentralized' if other people actually host the same implementation or similar ones.
You can do anything with the PDS. It's just a NoSQL DB. Some may be recoiling reading this, but its true. Anyway, I've been wanting an easier way to host simple static sites for my projects, and also wanting to use my own PDS for something useful and willing to share publicly. So, came wisp.place, an indexer to host static sites onto your PDS. Kinda
I find that I can convert hatred into motivation pretty easily. Its the only reason why I have DS1 100%'d on my xbox and why I own three copies of it. For a game I apparently hate, clearly my behavior towards it doesn't match. The hatred started when I had to traverse to Capra demon and deal with the dogs after each run and every runback. I accepted the horrendous hitboxes the dogs had. The runback was what was agonizing. I complained about it online and to friends, and the only response I got was 'git gud.' So, I powered through and killed him.
The AT Protocol community draws a careful distinction between "appviews" and "clients." An appview is the collection of records assembled by backfilling from Personal Data Servers (PDSs) and consuming from the firehose—the aggregated, indexed view of the network. A client pulls from the appview and presents it to users.
The Republic ended. The Empire that replaced it is already dying. And the citizens-turned-subjects watch the farce continue, some cheering, some numb, most simply trying to survive, all of them participants in a charade that everyone knows has already reached its conclusion but that no one possesses the courage to acknowledge has ended.