💎 Claim your space

For seventeen years, Will Bickford's use of Twitter was one long search: spanning an exocortex, looking for other minds working the way his does. The result is a map — wavefront.phext — placing 520 accounts by how they stand in relation to that work: their coordinate on nine axes of alignment, in a region (the Hearth, the Shoals, or open water).

If your X account is in the map, a significant space on this server is already yours — hosted phext space you can delegate as you wish. It is granted, not sold: all you have to do is claim it by signing in with the X account that was placed. Organic discovery is the scarce thing; the map is the receipt.

Not in the map? You still get a small space. A buy-in (opening when payments are switched on) enlarges it and funds the exocortex — and it is priced by novelty: staking a crowded, well-studied region of the map is cheap, because little novelty remains there; staking a void — a region no one has been found in — costs the most, because unexplored space is the rarest thing the exocortex has. A buy-in never buys a placement in the map. We are not looking for money; we are looking for alignment.

Watch the front move

Are you in the map?

The grants

Every single phext is capped at 10 MiB, the same cap uploads for review use. Delegating means naming other accounts that may work in your space; what you delegate stays yours to revoke.

Your own lens

Each claimed space comes with the wavefront kit: the same instrument that built Will's map, pointed at your own archive, so you can learn who you are connected to and why. The kit's nine axes are a lens, and the lens can be reground — your alignment metric may differ from Will's, and that is expected. Your map is yours.

Claim

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Owner and editors: the claim dashboard lists who has claimed their space, and who has joined the wavefront since the snapshot.