More than 80 humans, 11 countries… and the Wave begins to breathe
There are days when I mainly work on what lies behind the site.
Settings, statistics, tools to understand what is really happening.
And then, in the meantime, in front, humans are arriving.
Today, the two have come together.
We are finally starting to see better where the people discovering FreeWillWave are coming from, how they arrive here, who invited them… and how to thank them.
And above all, the Wave continues to grow.
We have surpassed 80 Free Humans
We are now at Free Human #86.
The latest arrival is named Brian Strong, from Canada.
The day before, we were still around number 77. This represents about nine new people in a single day.
In order, the Wave welcomed:
Hailey, from Canada
Oddur Tom, from Australia
Chris, from Canada
Kelly, from Canada
oli taylor, from the United Kingdom
Susanna, from Canada
Martyn, from the United Kingdom
Jay, from the United States
and Brian Strong, from Canada.
Canada is particularly present at the moment. More broadly, the majority of new arrivals currently come from the English-speaking world.
This is just the beginning, but something is starting to take shape.
These are no longer just numbers increasing.
These are people, countries, and paths coming together.
The Wave is now present in 11 countries
The Free Humans now come from:
Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Niger, Senegal, Tanzania, and United Arab Emirates.
Europe, North America, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East are already represented.
On the map, this means that new lights are turning on in different parts of the world.
This is precisely what FreeWillWave seeks to make visible: humans who, each in their own way, personally respond to the same question.
Will you choose freedom — and respect that same freedom in others?
No one answers on behalf of a group.
Everyone answers for themselves.
But when all the answers are gathered on the same map, they begin to tell something collective.
The first support from a lineage
Another important thing happened today.
Oddur Tom, Free Human #79, in Australia, sent a support of 5 US dollars.
Oddur Tom arrived through my personal link. He is therefore part of my direct lineage.
This is the first financial support that does not simply come from a registered person, but that actually traces back through a branch of the Wave.
The amount is modest, but what it represents is significant.
One person invited another. That person joined the experience. Then they freely chose to contribute in turn.
The Wave is no longer just starting to spread.
It is also beginning to generate its own energy.
Thank you, Oddur Tom.
Finally understanding where humans come from
Since the launch, I have been using different tools to know where registrations come from.
But there was regularly a rather frustrating problem.
An advertising tool might report three registrations, while I saw eight in the database.
In reality, no tool installed in a browser sees everything.
Some people register from the integrated browser of a mobile app. Others go through an external connection, a link received by email, or a path that advertising systems cannot fully track.
I have therefore created a new Analytics page in the administration.
It shows the channels, referring sites, campaigns, and countries of origin. But above all, it compares the registrations detected by advertising tools with the registrations actually recorded in the database.
The database thus becomes the reference.
Trackers can be wrong or miss part of the journey.
A registered Free Human, however, actually exists.
This will allow me to better understand what works, to no longer make decisions based on incomplete numbers, and to use the small budget allocated to promoting the project more intelligently.
A new campaign on X
I also launched a new advertising campaign on X, formerly Twitter.
The ad directly poses the question:
HOW MANY HUMANS CHOOSE FREEDOM?
The visual does not use an abstract image or an invented representation.
It uses the real map of FreeWillWave, with its golden lights.
In other words, the map of humans becomes the answer to the question itself.
As people join the experience, the answer appears before our eyes.
The conversion tracking from X has also been installed and verified live. I will therefore be able to compare the results reported by the platform with the registrations actually present in the Wave.
Bringing people in is important.
But understanding how they arrived allows us to continue without moving forward blindly.
The Wave page becomes truly alive
The /wave page has received several improvements.
The graph now has a visible grid and allows hovering over each point to know its date and value. Supports are clearly displayed in dollars.
The statistics blocks are more colorful, and the selected one stands out more.
The counters for Free Humans and countries now update in real-time. There is no longer that slight delay where the page briefly displayed an old value during loading.
And when someone supports the Wave, a rain of green dollars appears on the screen.
This is obviously just a small visual effect.
But I like the idea that a support does not pass silently into a database.
Someone has just brought energy to the project.
That deserves to be seen.
The favicon is also finally well visible, the spiral of the logo is sharper, and the titles of the different blocks are easier to read.
Little by little, the page stops being just a table of numbers.
It becomes the place where one can truly watch the Wave breathe.
A more direct question on the Reddit page
The page for visitors coming from Reddit has also been completely revamped.
It no longer starts by presenting them with a lengthy idea.
It directly asks them the question.
Will you choose freedom — and respect that of others?
The person answers only for themselves.
Then, all the answers make this choice visible on a collective scale.
This is an important distinction.
FreeWillWave does not seek to decide what humans think.
The project gives them a place where their own choice can appear, alongside that of others.
And perhaps the simple fact of discovering that we are many who share certain values can already change the way we look at each other, meet, and organize ourselves.
Lineages become more visible
On the personal page /me, the section dedicated to supports now displays the “Support found.”
This number represents the money brought to the Wave by people from your lineage.
It complements the number of people brought through invitations.
A lineage no longer just shows how many people arrived after you.
It can also show the energy they have decided to bring to the project.
Supports have also become clickable: the person's name now leads to their profile.
And in the administration, I added a button to personally thank a donor.
Because a support is not just a line in accounting.
Behind each contribution, there is a person who chose to give something to this adventure.
Some adjustments that change a lot
I have finally corrected several small daily details.
When changing languages, the screen now switches immediately, without giving the impression that nothing has happened.
The language selector also remains always accessible.
Taken separately, these are small adjustments.
But FreeWillWave is already used in several countries, mainly by English speakers at the moment. Every detail that makes the site clearer and more natural therefore counts a lot.
The Wave breathes
Today, we have surpassed 80 Free Humans.
We are present in 11 countries.
About nine people arrived in a single day.
A first support has come up through a lineage.
A new campaign publicly poses the question of freedom.
The map updates in real-time.
And behind all this, we are finally starting to understand the paths through which humans arrive to us.
FreeWillWave was created to make visible something that until now remained invisible: the individual choice of humans who recognize themselves as free and respect that same freedom in others.
Today, this choice has 86 faces.
It speaks several languages.
It already crosses part of the world.
And, slowly, the Wave begins to breathe.