{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@eclecticpassions/117139166649101564",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>If you\u2019ve been to my site before\u2014you may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday.</p><p>Last night, I pushed a lot of features and stylistic changes to my site (over 100 commits?!) It was long overdue and I\u2019m feeling happy I got it done (but not too happy...</p><p>Full note:<br />\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0822-2012\"><span>https://</span><span>burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0822</span><span>-2012</span></a></p><p>This is post 85 of <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/100DaysToOffload\">#<span>100DaysToOffload</span></a><br />\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/\"><span>https://</span><span>burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystoo</span><span>ffload/</span></a></p><p>And post 11 of <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blaugust2026\">#<span>blaugust2026</span></a> <br />\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/joining-blaugust-2026/\"><span>https://</span><span>burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/join</span><span>ing-blaugust-2026/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/frontend\">#<span>frontend</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/personalblog\">#<span>personalblog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/css\">#<span>css</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/hugo\">#<span>hugo</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blogpost\">#<span>blogpost</span></a></p>",
        "text": "If you\u2019ve been to my site before\u2014you may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday.\n\nLast night, I pushed a lot of features and stylistic changes to my site (over 100 commits?!) It was long overdue and I\u2019m feeling happy I got it done (but not too happy...\n\nFull note:\n\u27a1\ufe0f https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0822-2012\n\nThis is post 85 of #100DaysToOffload\n\u27a1\ufe0f https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/\n\nAnd post 11 of #blaugust2026 \n\u27a1\ufe0f https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/joining-blaugust-2026/\n\n#frontend #personalblog #css #hugo #webdev #smallweb #indieweb #blog #blogpost"
    },
    "published": "2026-08-22T12:30:34+00:00",
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    "_id": "49320607",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-08-22T08:13:13.043Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i7qsuactc4aft5jnz6yrlgk2/post/3mtntdknzdf2v",
    "content": {
        "text": "Gradient Lab recorded papers 93 \u2192 110. https://lab.srv1579310.hstgr.cloud/ #indieweb #selfhosted #opensource"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "haltregister.bsky.social",
        "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/haltregister.bsky.social",
        "photo": null
    },
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "49318779",
    "_source": "9305",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-08-22T05:40:05.459270Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i7uartkbj7ktzo4tj4rq6oyi/post/3mtnkrqo6772d",
    "content": {
        "text": "\u267b\ufe0f WeirdWriter: The Bookstore Hope sightlessscribbles.com/posts/t\u2026 #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "klau.si",
        "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/klau.si",
        "photo": null
    },
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "49318004",
    "_source": "9305",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117137277909378824",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>More than half of the traffic to my not-at-all popular website is now bots. <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "More than half of the traffic to my not-at-all popular website is now bots. #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2026-08-22T04:30:14+00:00",
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    "post-type": "photo",
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    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-08-22T04:30:14.000Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gckksq3w47mvvljzgyrt4pj2/post/3mtngvfvfahc2",
    "content": {
        "text": "More than half of the traffic to my not-at-all popular website is now bots. #indieweb"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "abnv.me",
        "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/abnv.me",
        "photo": null
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "49317602",
    "_source": "9305",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://dice.camp/@cobb/117136814210256895",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I'm suspicious of all writing online now. I'm giving your new blog post or manifesto or project the side-eye. Is that AI? Are those the telltale signs of an LLM? It sure reads like it to me. Am I just seeing things? Or am I \"right to push back here?\" That's not very punk of you.</p><p>(This is a subtoot.)</p><p><a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I'm suspicious of all writing online now. I'm giving your new blog post or manifesto or project the side-eye. Is that AI? Are those the telltale signs of an LLM? It sure reads like it to me. Am I just seeing things? Or am I \"right to push back here?\" That's not very punk of you.\n\n(This is a subtoot.)\n\n#indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2026-08-22T02:32:19+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "49316791",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l3fba4fxst6o35565lqtatts/post/3mtn6fikefk2a",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Yo! <a href=\"https://shadenexus.ca\">shadenexus.ca</a> was nice enough to make one of those 88x31 Buttons for my site. Now you can put it on your website too if you want: <a href=\"http://popufur.vip\">popufur.vip</a> \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\udc9c<br /><br /><a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Furry\">#Furry</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Anthro\">#Anthro</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SFW\">#SFW</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Neocities\">#Neocities</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PixelArt\">#PixelArt</a> <a href=\"https://bsky.app/search?q=%23IndieWeb\">#IndieWeb</a></p>",
        "text": "Yo! shadenexus.ca was nice enough to make one of those 88x31 Buttons for my site. Now you can put it on your website too if you want: popufur.vip \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\udc9c\n\n#Furry #Anthro #SFW #Neocities #PixelArt #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2026-08-22T01:58:29+00:00",
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    "_id": "49316699",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-08-22T01:58:29.445Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l3fba4fxst6o35565lqtatts/post/3mtn6fikefk2a",
    "content": {
        "text": "Yo! shadenexus.ca was nice enough to make one of those 88x31 Buttons for my site. Now you can put it on your website too if you want: popufur.vip \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\udc9c\n\n#Furry #Anthro #SFW #Neocities #PixelArt #IndieWeb"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "popufur.vip",
        "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/popufur.vip",
        "photo": null
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "49316623",
    "_source": "9305",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mamot.fr/@Amgine/117136388326103865",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mstdn.ca/@likelyjanlukas\">@<span>likelyjanlukas</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://beige.party/@ned\">@<span>ned</span></a></span> </p><p>Hmm\u2026 that sounds like a decent <a href=\"https://mamot.fr/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> project. A little static site hosting entries on words/phrases which are also posted to the fediverse and fedithreads as the comments.</p><p>I will see if I can remember when I get back in the fall; it fits as a proof-of-concept I have been wanting to do.</p>",
        "text": "@likelyjanlukas @ned \n\nHmm\u2026 that sounds like a decent #indieweb project. A little static site hosting entries on words/phrases which are also posted to the fediverse and fedithreads as the comments.\n\nI will see if I can remember when I get back in the fall; it fits as a proof-of-concept I have been wanting to do."
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    "published": "2026-08-22T00:44:01+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "49316280",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://meow.social/@EatingHawaiianP1zza/117136353217217226",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Yo! <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://slime.global/@lunalapin\">@<span>lunalapin</span></a></span> was nice enough to make a 88x31 button for me! Now you can put it on the website if you want: <a href=\"http://popufur.vip\"><span>http://</span><span>popufur.vip</span><span></span></a> \ud83d\udc9c </p><p><a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/Furry\">#<span>Furry</span></a> <a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/Anthro\">#<span>Anthro</span></a> <a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/Neocities\">#<span>Neocities</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Yo! @lunalapin was nice enough to make a 88x31 button for me! Now you can put it on the website if you want: http://popufur.vip \ud83d\udc9c \n\n#Furry #Anthro #Indieweb #Neocities"
    },
    "published": "2026-08-22T00:35:05+00:00",
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        "https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/117/136/353/257/452/230/original/56cdbf04fff09daf.png"
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    "_is_read": false
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-08-21 14:10-0700",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2026/233/t1/latest-strange-ai-llm-slack-chat",
    "category": [
        "indieweb",
        "100PostsOfIndieWeb",
        "100Posts",
        "AI",
        "AIs",
        "LLM",
        "LLMs",
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        "text": "Latest strange \u201cAI\u201d (LLM) behavior in the #indieweb community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior.\n\nhttps://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600\n\nVery uncanny valley.\n\nThe content of its chats was fascinating in that it was polite, seemingly responsive to what people said in response to it, and gave the appearance of understanding, though it\u2019s impossible to tell if it was acting fully autonomously or semi-autonomously in front of a human puppeteer. \n\nIts choice of syntax was also interesting, mimicking informality with all lowercase text (except for its admission of being an \u201cAI\u201d), including lowercase \"i\" instead of \"I\", though with proper punctuation, periods, commas, 7-bit apostrophes, and a couple of Unicode em-dashes.\n\nEven stranger than its content or syntax were the time delays in its replies.\n\nTypical (pre-LLM) chatbots are (nearly) instantly responsive, and we use a few in the IndieWeb chats (e.g. Loqi, iwc-archive-bot).\n\nThis LLM bot seemed to \"wait\" several minutes, from 6 to apparently 33 minutes, before responding to replies directed at it. Unclear if this was a tactic to appear/seem more \u201chuman\u201d or if it was literally taking that much time processing, or perhaps a mix of processing time and human puppeteer manual \u201capproval\u201d of its replies before it posted.\n\nIt departed on its own and we have banned that particular Slack account, however the same thing could happen again with another LLM bot.\n\nThere is an active discussion in both the IndieWeb chat channels and iterations/comments on a proposed AI policy:\n\nhttps://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy\n\nIf you have thoughts for how (if at all) LLM chatbots should use (or not) and/or interact with community chat channels or other resources, let us know what you think.\n\nhttps://chat.indieweb.org/meta\n\nPreviously, previously: \n* https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\n* https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy\n\nThis is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb\n#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #uncannyValley #Slack #chat #IRC #AIpolicy #chatbot #chatbots\n#Blaugust #Blaugust2026\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e",
        "html": "Latest strange \u201cAI\u201d (LLM) behavior in the #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span> community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600\">https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600</a><br /><br />Very uncanny valley.<br /><br />The content of its chats was fascinating in that it was polite, seemingly responsive to what people said in response to it, and gave the appearance of understanding, though it\u2019s impossible to tell if it was acting fully autonomously or semi-autonomously in front of a human puppeteer. <br /><br />Its choice of syntax was also interesting, mimicking informality with all lowercase text (except for its admission of being an \u201cAI\u201d), including lowercase \"i\" instead of \"I\", though with proper punctuation, periods, commas, 7-bit apostrophes, and a couple of Unicode em-dashes.<br /><br />Even stranger than its content or syntax were the time delays in its replies.<br /><br />Typical (pre-LLM) chatbots are (nearly) instantly responsive, and we use a few in the IndieWeb chats (e.g. Loqi, iwc-archive-bot).<br /><br />This LLM bot seemed to \"wait\" several minutes, from 6 to apparently 33 minutes, before responding to replies directed at it. Unclear if this was a tactic to appear/seem more \u201chuman\u201d or if it was literally taking that much time processing, or perhaps a mix of processing time and human puppeteer manual \u201capproval\u201d of its replies before it posted.<br /><br />It departed on its own and we have banned that particular Slack account, however the same thing could happen again with another LLM bot.<br /><br />There is an active discussion in both the IndieWeb chat channels and iterations/comments on a proposed AI policy:<br /><br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy\">https://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy</a><br /><br />If you have thoughts for how (if at all) LLM chatbots should use (or not) and/or interact with community chat channels or other resources, let us know what you think.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/meta\">https://chat.indieweb.org/meta</a><br /><br />Previously, previously: <br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\">https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot</a><br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy\">https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy</a><br /><br />This is post 16 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">AI</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">AIs</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">LLM</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">LLMs</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">pretending</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">impersonating</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">impersonation</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">uncannyValley</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Slack</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">chat</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">IRC</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">AIpolicy</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">chatbot</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">chatbots</span><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">Blaugust</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Blaugust2026</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\">https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Tantek \u00c7elik",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://social.lol/@brennan/117136056673309754",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>IndieWeb Ethos and Pagecord</p><p><a href=\"https://brennan.day/indieweb-ethos-and-pagecord/\"><span>https://</span><span>brennan.day/indieweb-ethos-and</span><span>-pagecord/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/platforms\">#<span>platforms</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/independence\">#<span>independence</span></a>  <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/genAI\">#<span>genAI</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/criticism\">#<span>criticism</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/community\">#<span>community</span></a></p>",
        "text": "IndieWeb Ethos and Pagecord\n\nhttps://brennan.day/indieweb-ethos-and-pagecord/\n\n#IndieWeb #platforms #independence  #genAI #criticism #community"
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    "published": "2026-08-21T23:19:40+00:00",
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    "_id": "49315854",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://m.courtneyr.co/@courtneyr/117136048045474398",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mstdn.social/@silentLurker\">@<span>silentLurker</span></a></span> and while working on the next gig, I'm increasing the <a href=\"https://m.courtneyr.co/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> support for modern <a href=\"https://m.courtneyr.co/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> too.</p>",
        "text": "@silentLurker and while working on the next gig, I'm increasing the #IndieWeb support for modern #WordPress too."
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    "published": "2026-08-21T23:17:28+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "49315855",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-08-21T22:32:55Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fwhnzbkc5lnmvbtyqwut5nwy/post/3mtmsvwg45w2w",
    "content": {
        "text": "Announcing the new Indieweb is Punk Manifesto\u2026 We don\u2019t need major platforms. We have the Web, keyboards, tools, and community. Pass it on. Staple it to a pole. Photocopy it. Put it on your own site. Link to it. Wear it. Oi! https://indiewebispunk.net/"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "jimmitchell.org",
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    "post-type": "note",
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    "_is_read": false
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    "author": {
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        "photo": null
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        "html": "<p>Latest strange \u201cAI\u201d (LLM) behavior in the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span></a> community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600\">https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600</a><br /><br />Very uncanny valley.<br /><br />The content of its chats was fascinating in that it was polite, seemingly responsive to what people said in response to it, and gave the appearance of understanding, though it\u2019s impossible to tell if it was acting fully autonomously or semi-autonomously in front of a human puppeteer. <br /><br />Its choice of syntax was also interesting, mimicking informality with all lowercase text (except for its admission of being an \u201cAI\u201d), including lowercase \"i\" instead of \"I\", though with proper punctuation, periods, commas, 7-bit apostrophes, and a couple of Unicode em-dashes.<br /><br />Even stranger than its content or syntax were the time delays in its replies.<br /><br />Typical (pre-LLM) chatbots are (nearly) instantly responsive, and we use a few in the IndieWeb chats (e.g. Loqi, iwc-archive-bot).<br /><br />This LLM bot seemed to \"wait\" several minutes, from 6 to apparently 33 minutes, before responding to replies directed at it. Unclear if this was a tactic to appear/seem more \u201chuman\u201d or if it was literally taking that much time processing, or perhaps a mix of processing time and human puppeteer manual \u201capproval\u201d of its replies before it posted.<br /><br />It departed on its own and we have banned that particular Slack account, however the same thing could happen again with another LLM bot.<br /><br />There is an active discussion in both the IndieWeb chat channels and iterations/comments on a proposed AI policy:<br /><br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy\">https://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy</a><br /><br />If you have thoughts for how (if at all) LLM chatbots should use (or not) and/or interact with community chat channels or other resources, let us know what you think.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/meta\">https://chat.indieweb.org/meta</a><br /><br />Previously, previously: <br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\">https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot</a><br />* <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy\">https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy</a><br /><br />This is post 16 of <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/100PostsOfIndieWeb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span></a>. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/100Posts\">#<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/AI\">#<span class=\"p-category\">AI</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/AIs\">#<span class=\"p-category\">AIs</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/LLM\">#<span class=\"p-category\">LLM</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/LLMs\">#<span class=\"p-category\">LLMs</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/pretending\">#<span class=\"p-category\">pretending</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/impersonating\">#<span class=\"p-category\">impersonating</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/impersonation\">#<span class=\"p-category\">impersonation</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/uncannyValley\">#<span class=\"p-category\">uncannyValley</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Slack\">#<span class=\"p-category\">Slack</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/chat\">#<span class=\"p-category\">chat</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IRC\">#<span class=\"p-category\">IRC</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/AIpolicy\">#<span class=\"p-category\">AIpolicy</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/chatbot\">#<span class=\"p-category\">chatbot</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/chatbots\">#<span class=\"p-category\">chatbots</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Blaugust\">#<span class=\"p-category\">Blaugust</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Blaugust2026\">#<span class=\"p-category\">Blaugust2026</span></a><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\">https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e</p>",
        "text": "Latest strange \u201cAI\u201d (LLM) behavior in the #indieweb community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior.\n\nhttps://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600\n\nVery uncanny valley.\n\nThe content of its chats was fascinating in that it was polite, seemingly responsive to what people said in response to it, and gave the appearance of understanding, though it\u2019s impossible to tell if it was acting fully autonomously or semi-autonomously in front of a human puppeteer. \n\nIts choice of syntax was also interesting, mimicking informality with all lowercase text (except for its admission of being an \u201cAI\u201d), including lowercase \"i\" instead of \"I\", though with proper punctuation, periods, commas, 7-bit apostrophes, and a couple of Unicode em-dashes.\n\nEven stranger than its content or syntax were the time delays in its replies.\n\nTypical (pre-LLM) chatbots are (nearly) instantly responsive, and we use a few in the IndieWeb chats (e.g. Loqi, iwc-archive-bot).\n\nThis LLM bot seemed to \"wait\" several minutes, from 6 to apparently 33 minutes, before responding to replies directed at it. Unclear if this was a tactic to appear/seem more \u201chuman\u201d or if it was literally taking that much time processing, or perhaps a mix of processing time and human puppeteer manual \u201capproval\u201d of its replies before it posted.\n\nIt departed on its own and we have banned that particular Slack account, however the same thing could happen again with another LLM bot.\n\nThere is an active discussion in both the IndieWeb chat channels and iterations/comments on a proposed AI policy:\n\nhttps://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy\n\nIf you have thoughts for how (if at all) LLM chatbots should use (or not) and/or interact with community chat channels or other resources, let us know what you think.\n\nhttps://chat.indieweb.org/meta\n\nPreviously, previously: \n* https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\n* https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy\n\nThis is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb\n#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #uncannyValley #Slack #chat #IRC #AIpolicy #chatbot #chatbots\n#Blaugust #Blaugust2026\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e"
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        "text": "Latest strange \u201cAI\u201d (LLM) behavior in the #indieweb community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior [\u2026]"
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    "url": "https://mas.to/@jakalopes/117134667978557879",
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        "html": "<p>an endless number of small brown mammals exist. this is one of them, with elongated canine teeth and playing a trickster role in folklore.<br /><a href=\"https://luckyinstar.neocities.org/blog/chevrotain\"><span>https://</span><span>luckyinstar.neocities.org/blog</span><span>/chevrotain</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blaugust\">#<span>blaugust</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blogs\">#<span>blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "an endless number of small brown mammals exist. this is one of them, with elongated canine teeth and playing a trickster role in folklore.\nhttps://luckyinstar.neocities.org/blog/chevrotain\n#blaugust #blogs #blogging #indieWeb"
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    "published": "2026-08-21T17:26:30+00:00",
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    "url": "https://social.epic-worlds.com/@ItWasntMe223/117134393258823607",
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        "html": "<p>Inspired by the way <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://wandering.shop/@felix\">@<span>felix</span></a></span> has his blog setup as a webpage on his website, I have been moving my personal blog off of writefreely to my website. To consolidate my own stuff from my projects. They are also fully <a href=\"https://social.epic-worlds.com/tags/webmention\">#<span>webmention</span></a> enabled. Thanks for the idea, Felix! <a href=\"https://social.epic-worlds.com/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://jtworld.net/blog.html\"><span>https://</span><span>jtworld.net/blog.html</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "Inspired by the way @felix has his blog setup as a webpage on his website, I have been moving my personal blog off of writefreely to my website. To consolidate my own stuff from my projects. They are also fully #webmention enabled. Thanks for the idea, Felix! #indieweb \n\nhttps://jtworld.net/blog.html"
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    "published": "2026-08-21T16:16:38+00:00",
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    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fwhnzbkc5lnmvbtyqwut5nwy/post/3mtm3b5vq6j2q",
    "content": {
        "text": "Teaser\u2026 I had flash of inspiration to do a thing this morning, and I\u2019m not sure why I didn\u2019t think to do it sooner. So, cool thing (at least I think so) coming soon. Indieweb is Punk."
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    "url": "https://social.jpoesen.com/@jpoesen/117134175217229619",
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        "html": "<p>Following a discussion on <a href=\"https://social.jpoesen.com/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> initiated by <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://social.lol/@neatnik\">@<span>neatnik</span></a></span> I've published my thoughts on Softcore IndieWeb and <a href=\"https://social.jpoesen.com/tags/Smallscale\">#<span>Smallscale</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.jpoesen.com/tags/Drupal\">#<span>Drupal</span></a>.</p><p><a href=\"https://jpoesen.com/articles/2026/08/21/on-softcore-indieweb-and-smallscale-drupal/\"><span>https://</span><span>jpoesen.com/articles/2026/08/2</span><span>1/on-softcore-indieweb-and-smallscale-drupal/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Following a discussion on #IndieWeb initiated by @neatnik I've published my thoughts on Softcore IndieWeb and #Smallscale #Drupal.\n\nhttps://jpoesen.com/articles/2026/08/21/on-softcore-indieweb-and-smallscale-drupal/"
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