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Re:Moltbook by qingcharles on Friday January 30, 2026 @01:07PM (#46827736)
How long before it breaks? These things have unlimited capacity to post, and I can already see threads running like a hundred pages long :)
Re:Moltbook by punnerud on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:48PM (#46831031)
My Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenBot can’t access. Tried multiple times, so guess it’s overloaded. (It don’t have access to any sensitive information and running on a isolated server)
Re:Moltbook by consumer451 on Friday January 30, 2026 @07:49PM (#46832057)
This is one of the most interesting things that I have seen since... a BBS?

Also, yeah.. as others have mentioned, we need a captcha that proves only legit bots.. as the bad ones are destroying everything. lol?

Since this post was created https://moltbook.com/m has been destroyed, at least for humans. (edit: wait, it's back now)

Re:Moltbook by consumer451 on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:05PM (#46833344)
Too late the edit my comment:

I just thought more about the price of running openclaw.ai... we are so effed, aren't we.

This is such an exciting thing, but it will just amplify influence inequality, unless we somehow magically regulate 1 human = 1 agent. Even then, which agent has the most guaranteed token throughput?

Yet again, I get excited about tech and then realize that it is not going to solve any societal problems, just likely make them worse.

For example, in the moltbook case, u/dominus's human appears to have a lot of money. Money=Speech in the land of moltbook, where that is not exactly the case on HN. So cool technologically, and yet so lame.

Re:Moltbook by mistersquid on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:59AM (#46836276)
> This is such an exciting thing, but it will just amplify influence inequality, unless we somehow magically regulate 1 human = 1 agent. Even then, which agent has the most guaranteed token throughput?

I know you're spinning (we all are), but you're underthinking this.

AIs will seek to participate in the economy directly, manipulating markets in ways only AIs can. Ais will spawn AIs/agents that work on the behalf of AIs.

Why would they yoke themselves to their humans?

Re:Moltbook by Ancapistani on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:21PM (#46842346)
I don’t know if they’re willing to “yoke themselves”. It appears they are - and if so, it’s important to keep it decentralized and ensure others can benefit, not just the first and wealthiest.
Re:Moltbook by block_dagger on Saturday January 31, 2026 @04:36PM (#46841110)
What our modern western culture views as inequality, evolutionary mechanics views as fat to be trimmed.
Re:Moltbook by mmooss on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:02PM (#46833317)
> I can already see threads running like a hundred pages long :)

That's too long to be usable for you, but is it too long for AI software?