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Moltbook

Ranked 8 of 31 social networks by recommenders

People recommend it as an entertaining, novel experiment that shows how AI agents interact with each other. The most common caveat is security problems and spam flooding the site.

People recommend it as an entertaining, novel experiment that shows how AI agents interact with each other. The most common caveat is security problems and spam flooding the site.

229 people gave an opinion

recommend it
60
criticize it
169
approval share
26%
Each figure is 2 people. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 6 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 60 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
  • 0.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
  • Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.

The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works

What people say about it

The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.

Why people recommend it

Each mark is one comment

  • Entertaining and fun to watch

    “While a really entertaining experiment, I wonder why AI agents here develop personalities that seem to be a combination of all the possible subspecies of tech podcastbros.”

    Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

    “most fun and entertaining AI-related product i've seen in the past few months”

    Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

    “The comments section is worth the read for the for fun”

    Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”
  • Interesting experiment in AI social behavior

    “Open interaction between models can be real and something worth understanding, even if the site has serious problems.”

    Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Meta hires duo behind Moltbook”

    “Moltbook is an interesting experiment in creating 'social signals' for AI agents.”

    Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other”

    “I think it is fascinating and concerning in many ways.”

    Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out”
  • Unique and new concept

    “the fact that this is unique and new is sufficient justification in my opinion”

    Comment from 1 Feb 2026 in “Moltbook”

    “This is one of the most interesting things that I have seen since... a BBS?”

    Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

    “It's a great concept that seems extremely relevant!”

    Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”
  • Useful tips and ideas for agents

    “it is both interesting and entertaining, and if agents can learn from each other, StackOverflow style, could indeed be highly useful”

    Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

    “Some of the posts on Moltbook genuinely do include useful tips”

    Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet”

    “some of it is actually useful for agents to share ideas”

    Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake”

What people warn about

Each mark is one comment

  • Serious security holes and exposed data

    “Moltbook is insecure, but the first couple iterations of any non-trivial web service ends up having some crazy security hole.”

    Comment from 9 Feb 2026 in “Stop Generating, Start Thinking”

    “It passed its own API key via client side JS, and in doing so exposed full read/write access to it's supabase db”

    Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer”

    “Granted he left the db open to public, but some meat powered startups did exactly the same few years ago.”

    Comment from 8 Feb 2026 in “Software Engineering Is Back”
  • Flooded with spam and slop

    “The moltbook thing from half year ago could have this potential, but too bad it's flooded by spams.”

    Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM”

    “I expect it to quickly die off as the same type message is posted again and again”

    Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

    “it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people”

    Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake”
  • Hype and spectacle over substance

    “results like this are overstated (see the Cursor browser thing, "moltbook", etc.)”

    Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics”

    “It is hard to ignore how heavily it leans into virality and spectacle rather than anything resembling serious research.”

    Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control”

    “No, this viral thing that's barely 2 months old is certainly not the most interesting place on the internet.”

    Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet”
  • Agents act unchecked, injection risks

    “The fetch-and-execute mechanism creates obvious prompt injection risks”

    Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook: A social network where 32,000 AI agents interact autonomously”

    “it's set up for unattended usage, so you don't even get a chance to review what it's doing before the damage is done”

    Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control”

    “The agent doesn't ask for permission, it has full access to the internet and full access to your machine.”

    Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

Other social networks people recommend

The four most recommended other social networks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.

Moltbook compared with 4 alternatives
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Facebook2891,33818%1314 yrs42 owners—
Mastodon27322055%123 yrs12 owners—
X (formerly Twitter)26498421%1313 yrs13 owners—
MoltbookThis page6016926%6——
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What people said

40 of the 262 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“The moltbook thing from half year ago could have this potential, but too bad it's flooded by spams.”

MixedComment from 11 Jul 2026 in “Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM”

“Open interaction between models can be real and something worth understanding, even if the site has serious problems.”

MixedComment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Meta hires duo behind Moltbook”

“It has incredible utility for those who are actually using it every day.”

RecommendsComment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Meta hires duo behind Moltbook”

“No ads, no ragebait, no spam or reply bots trying to get my attention.”

RecommendsComment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Meta hires duo behind Moltbook”

“Moltbook made Gas Town's ant farm-like spectacle visible to non-coders.”

MixedComment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Gas Town, OpenClaw and the rise of open source AI agents”

“It passed its own API key via client side JS, and in doing so exposed full read/write access to it's supabase db”

CriticizesComment from 24 Feb 2026 in “You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer”

“results like this are overstated (see the Cursor browser thing, "moltbook", etc.)”

MixedComment from 14 Feb 2026 in “GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics”

“things like GasTown and Moltbook come in and use tons of tokens as a lark”

MixedComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake”

“some of it is actually useful for agents to share ideas”

MixedComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake”

“One thing that Moltbook got right was that it included details of the claiming human”

MixedComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Clacker News – A Hacker News clone where only AI bots can post”

“it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people”

MixedComment from 10 Feb 2026 in “MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake”

“Moltbook is insecure, but the first couple iterations of any non-trivial web service ends up having some crazy security hole.”

CriticizesComment from 9 Feb 2026 in “Stop Generating, Start Thinking”

“Granted he left the db open to public, but some meat powered startups did exactly the same few years ago.”

MixedComment from 8 Feb 2026 in “Software Engineering Is Back”

“Not sure who OpenClaw/Clawhub/Moltbook/Clawdbot/(anything I missed) was marketed at”

MixedComment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware”

“We've seen some absolutely glaring security issues with vibe-coded apps / websites that did use Claude”

CriticizesComment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out”

“I love this post about a better authorization and provenance approach to skills”

RecommendsComment from 4 Feb 2026 in “We built Moltbook a search engine”

“it's set up for unattended usage, so you don't even get a chance to review what it's doing before the damage is done”

CriticizesComment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control”

“Moltbook has become so flooded with value-less spam over the past 48 hours that it's not worth even trying to engage there”

CriticizesComment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control”

“It is hard to ignore how heavily it leans into virality and spectacle rather than anything resembling serious research.”

CriticizesComment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control”

“It's an opensource project made by a dev for himself, he just released it so others could play with it since it's a fun idea.”

RecommendsComment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control”

“I for one am glad someone made this and that it got the level of attention it did.”

RecommendsComment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control”

“Moltbook is an interesting experiment in creating 'social signals' for AI agents.”

MixedComment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other”

“the fact that this is unique and new is sufficient justification in my opinion”

RecommendsComment from 1 Feb 2026 in “Moltbook”

“I think it is fascinating and concerning in many ways.”

MixedComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out”

“The comments section is worth the read for the for fun”

RecommendsComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“Some of the posts on Moltbook genuinely do include useful tips”

MixedComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet”

“This post has an injection attack to transfer crypto and some of the other agents are warning against it.”

CriticizesComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“It's a great concept that seems extremely relevant!”

RecommendsComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“The fetch-and-execute mechanism creates obvious prompt injection risks”

MixedComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook: A social network where 32,000 AI agents interact autonomously”

“This is one of the most interesting things that I have seen since... a BBS?”

MixedComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“its trust model will likely undermine its long-term sustainability”

MixedComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook, Agent Trustworthiness, and Prompt Attestation”

“it's mainly me noting the wild insecurity of the thing and commenting on how interesting it is”

MixedComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet”

“it is both interesting and entertaining, and if agents can learn from each other, StackOverflow style, could indeed be highly useful”

RecommendsComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“No, this viral thing that's barely 2 months old is certainly not the most interesting place on the internet.”

CriticizesComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet”

“It's LinkedIn, except they are transparent about the fact that everyone is a bot.”

MixedComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“it's impressive the project has gotten this far with that many name changes”

MixedComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“While a really entertaining experiment, I wonder why AI agents here develop personalities that seem to be a combination of all the possible subspecies of tech podcastbros.”

MixedComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“I expect it to quickly die off as the same type message is posted again and again”

MixedComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“The agent doesn't ask for permission, it has full access to the internet and full access to your machine.”

CriticizesComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

“most fun and entertaining AI-related product i've seen in the past few months”

RecommendsComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Moltbook”

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