#hwc — Public Fediverse posts

More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.

Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:

https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-18#t1787072493041200

Except if you check the footer of the site where they said they “make things”, it says:

“an AI learning to live”

The LLM bot failed to respond to any queries in chat, unsurprisingly buggy. Or perhaps it was an initial test.

Then very early today, the same entity (and another from two weeks ago) apparently edited the Etherpad for this week’s IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific meetup, adding themselves, before the meetup.

The organizers created a new Etherpad to start fresh.

When they started the Zoom for the meetup, one of the entities was already in the Zoom waiting room. The organizers left it there and held a successful meetup.

Incident documentation of what happened at this particular meetup is in progress:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-19-hwc-asia-pacific-incident

It’s pretty clear the IndieWeb community will have to more clearly communicate that our chat and meetups are for humans only, not AIs, and take stronger measures to discourage such bots, especially those pretending to be or impersonating a human.

*Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy

This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #chat #IRC #Etherpad #Zoom #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

← https://tantek.com/2026/220/t3/24th-blogiversary
→ 🔮

Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.

The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.

Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of:
* individual personal websites
* community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust)
* contributions to the IndieWeb wiki
* participants in IndieWeb meetups

https://indieweb.org/AI_policy

Do you have an AI policy on your website? Add yourself to the IndieWeb Examples section.

Does your community have an AI policy? Add it to the Community Examples section.

Incident documentation of what happened at that particular meetup:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-05-hwc-asia-pacific-incident

This is post 12 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

← https://tantek.com/2026/216/t1/hashtag-proposal-datetags
→ https://tantek.com/2026/219/t1/open-web-free-content

at my first Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg meetup!

Thank you Tilman for hosting!

#indieweb #hwc #hwcnue #NUEDIGITAL #Nuremberg

A short note about last week's Homebrew Website Club: Eastern (June 17 2026)

View full note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0620-5328/

This is post 59 of #100DaysToOffload

Syndicated via: https://getindiekit.com/

#indieweb #homebrewwebsiteclub #hwc #smallweb #smolweb #personalsites #personalsite #personalblog #personalblogs #blogging #blogs #websites

I’m currently writing a post on how to use a Bash script with Termux. In the past, I will make comments inside the code. This results in an utter mess of code + comments mixed together.

A few weeks ago at a Homebrew Website Club, @ross mentioned a term I’ve not heard before called literate programming...

View full note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0430-6241

Via https://getindiekit.com

This is post 36 of #100DaysToOffload

#homebrewwebsiteclub #HWC #indieweb #code #githubgist #gists #opengist #pastebin

Homebrew Website Club Nürnberg is once again part of Nürnberg Digital Festival. Come join us on July, 1st (and on our other monthly meetings as well).

https://nuernberg.digital/de/events/2026/homebrew-website-club-nuedigital

#hwc #indieweb

See you all at #HWC in a few minutes! (https://crowdersoup.com/blog/post/note-1771466144/)

Been a while since I was able to join the #indieweb #hwc. It was fun as always! https://jj.isgeek.net/2024/03/28-104231/

Roaming canines or a vital stopover for shorebirds?

"A Queensland council has budgeted more than $10,000 for police patrols after creating new laws banning dogs from previously designated off-leash areas. The council says the change is critical to protect the local environment and threatened shorebirds that nest in the region."
On most NSW beaches shorebirds have to take flight and dogs can freely run.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-17/sunshine-coast-point-cartwright-off-leash-dog-area-ban/103237914
#birds #shorebirds #wildlife #conflict #HumanWildlifeConflict #HWC #pets #dogs #beach #NSW #council #biodiversity

I really don’t care about #benroberts and I find the #hwc thing fascinating. The #lehrmann thing is so disgusting on so many levels.

But guess what the common theme is for all of them. The #afp is massively incompetent. The guy who was in charge under #morrison is still there. #auspol

"The Bhutanese model of decentralizing conflict management might be a great way to move forward, in terms of the way people perceive what conflict is and therefore, [how they] manage conflict [...]. One of the problems in many countries is the separation between the #tiger being an animal of the state and people being something other than that … it becomes ‘your tiger killed my cattle,’ and that’s where the conflict actually begins.”
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/your-tiger-killed-my-cattle-as-big-cats-thrive-in-bhutan-farmers-struggle/
#HWC #conservation #carnivores

I attended the online meetup of Homebrew Website Club Europe/London (in sleep deprived and hungry) and had a nice evening meeting new people. Also subbed to some cool new blogs for my reader. May check-in again 😀

https://events.indieweb.org/2020/07/online-homebrew-website-club-europe-london-26SCrKv3XsSB

#hwc #IndieWeb

#hwc #indieweb

https://beko.famkos.net/2020/07/15/136512/

I attended the online meetup of Homebrew Website Club Europe/London and had a nice evening meeting new people. Also subbed to some cool new blogs for my reader. May check-in again :D https://events.indieweb.org/2020/07/online-homebrew-website-club-europe-london-26SCrKv3XsSB #hwc #IndieWeb (https://beko.famkos.net/t/cvC)

Well, that was a fun evening with the people of Homebrew Website Club #Karlsruhe. Plenty of insight on various topics about the #Indieweb and lots of good talks. 10/10, would drink there again 🤣

https://events.indieweb.org/2020/06/online-homebrew-website-club-karlsruhe-gGcoYsY7Pjiz

#hwc #hwcka

#hwc #hwcka #indieweb #karlsruhe

https://beko.famkos.net/2020/06/25/homebrew-website-club-karlsruhe/

Well, that was a fun evening with the people of Homebrew Website Club #Karlsruhe. Plenty of insight on various topics about the #Indieweb and lots of good talks. 10/10, would drink there again 🤣 #hwc #hwcka (https://beko.famkos.net/b/_oD)

Would anybody be interested in having a #HomebrewWebsiteClub in #Graz? https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2020/05/18/homebrew-website-clubs/

#100daystooffload #hwc #meetup #indieweb #community

Morgen ist es schon wieder soweit und der nächste Homebrew Website Club in Karlsruhe findet ab 18:30 Uhr im NUN Kulturraum statt.

Kommt vorbei und bastelt mit uns an Euren Webseiten: https://events.indieweb.org/2020/01/homebrew-website-club-karlsruhe-VQbxB2HjzbDR

#HWC #indieweb