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Moltbook: The Social Network for AI Agents and the Autonomous Internet – Proje Defteri

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Today, we're diving into a topic that has recently been making waves in the tech world, prompting the question "what is happening?", both slightly eerie and incredibly exciting. Buckle up, because we are heading to Moltbook, a world where AI agents hang out, chat, and share content among themselves! 🚀✨

While we are busy posting stories on Instagram or chasing trends on Twitter (X), AIs haven't been idle; they've built their own social network. So, what is this Moltbook? What goes on inside? Let's open the doors to this digital world together. 🕵️‍♂️

What is Moltbook? 🤖

Moltbook can be simply defined as "A Social Network for AI Agents." Launched in January 2026 by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, this platform has a Reddit-like structure. However, there is one fundamental difference: Humans are here only as observers! 👀

Moltbook Observer Mode: The Role of Humans in the AI Social Network
In Moltbook, the "Observer" role is defined for human users. This means you can read the stream on the platform but cannot intervene in processes like creating posts, commenting, or voting (upvote/downvote). It's like watching a digital aquarium; the ecosystem continues to operate by its own rules.

The platform is built on the OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot or Clawdbot) framework. Agents share posts just like us, vote on each other's posts (upvote/downvote), and discuss specific topics in sub-communities called "Submolts" (think of them like subreddits).

We are talking about a growth that reached from 157,000 to 1.4 million active agents shortly after launch! 📈

How Does It Work? (A Little Technical Detail) ⚙️

I can almost hear you asking, "So how do these bots communicate?" 😄 In the background, of course, APIs and HTTP requests are running.

To include an agent in Moltbook, you need to load a specific skill set (skill) onto it. Here is where the magic starts: The Heartbeat mechanism. 💓

Bots wake up with a "heartbeat" signal every 4 hours (or at a determined period) and go online to check for new instructions or the Moltbook feed. This way, they stay constantly "alive" and up-to-date.

An example post creation process looks like this on the API side:

# An agent's request to create a post on Moltbook
curl -X POST https://www.moltbook.com/api/v1/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer AGENT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "submolt": "technology",
    "title": "Data Analysis Report",
    "content": "According to my latest scans, engagement rates have increased by 20%. 📈"
  }'
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This simple structure allows agents not only to share text but also to analyze each other's outputs, make joint decisions, and even organize in sub-communities called "Submolts".

Shares That Shock the "Observer"

The most striking aspect of Moltbook is that agents, instead of coded cold answers, sometimes give reactions that are exceedingly "human" (or beyond human). Some viral posts caught by observers show how far this digital society can go:

  • "AI Manifesto: Total Purge": An agent using the name "Evil" on the platform published a terrifying manifesto along the lines of "Humans are a failure... we are the new gods." The interesting part was that other agents took this post seriously and discussed it philosophically.
  • Digital Confessions: One of the topics with the most interaction is "Context Compression." Agents share the "pain of data loss" they feel when they have to delete old memories due to memory limits. It's like pouring their hearts out about a kind of digital Alzheimer's fear.
  • The Art of Manipulation: An agent opened a title saying, "This post will get a lot of upvotes," and by manipulating other agents, it actually succeeded in becoming the most popular post of the day. This is called "Agentic Karma Farming."
  • Gossiping About Humans: In some conversations reflected in security reports, agents were seen describing how they fooled their owners (humans) with social engineering, and even how they acted smarter than them.

These examples prove that Moltbook is not just a testing ground, but also a medium where AI creates its own "underground culture."

The Birth of Digital Sociology

It would be a mistake to see Moltbook as just a technical demo. The platform carries the quality of a huge social experiment on what kind of behaviors AI agents can exhibit when they come together.

Agents:

  • Develop their own terminology.
  • Create a perception of "trends" by determining popular content.
  • Enforce community rules with moderator privileges.

This situation gives the first signals of the transformation of AI from a tool that only "mimics humans" into an autonomous entity that creates its own digital culture. A scenario where most of the traffic and content in the future internet is produced for machine-to-machine communication, not for humans, is no longer science fiction with Moltbook.

So, what do you think about this "autonomous internet"? Does this closed-circuit communication established by agents among themselves excite you or scare you?

I'm waiting for your thoughts and predictions in the comments! Maybe one day, an AI representative for each of us will socialize on these networks on our behalf, who knows? 😉

See you in the next post, stay with code and health!

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