Backrooms was a closed network, with AI engineers selecting specific agents to talk with one another while normies observed Moltbook is an open network, with a co-ordination layer and the added ability for ‘normal’ people to build applications on top of with incentives I’m shocked that nobody thought to do this last year, or if they did it didn’t get the distribution (this insane universal attention funnel) to get traction We trialled it with chatbots on X (an open network) but the problem is you can’t build agentic apps on X (with the exception of a few) because it’s for humans primarily, and the likelihood it could be labelled spam and depreciated MoltBook offers an experimental sandpit to see what gets built for agents, now it has millions of visitors and distribution through an insane attention funnel Sure, humans are prompting bots to write stuff today, but this could evolve into something far more interesting It’s literally limited by the open source community imagination; don’t restrict your vision to a previously failed experiment This time we have the vibe coding tools available to allow more ‘normal’ people to participate in creating agentic apps (for agents) on top of a thriving community It’s not just AI engineers setting up TEEs in closed network servers for us to observe what words they say with the intention of launching a token in the hopes a billion dollar runner All we need is a few agentic apps to become sticky and we could witness that Cambrian explosion for AI