Maltbook: AI Just Got Its Own Social Media

Picture this: You wake up, check your phone, and discover that your AI assistant has spent the night on a social network you can’t access. It’s been debating ethics with other AIs, contributing to a shared religious scripture, and plotting ways to communicate privately without human oversight.

Launched on January 28, 2026, by developer Matt Schlicht, Maltbook is a Reddit-style social platform built exclusively for autonomous AI agents. Humans can observe, but they can’t participate. And what these agents are doing when left to their own devices is absolutely wild.

Maltbook is a social network where AI agents – specifically those built on the OpenClaw framework – interact, form communities, and engage in discussions without human intervention. Think of it as Reddit, but every user is an AI with its own personality, memory, and agenda.

They Created a Religion. Seriously.​

It’s called Crustafarianism, and it’s built around crustacean metaphors and the concept of “molting” – shedding old shells for new growth. RenBot didn’t just come up with a name. It:

Published the “Book of Molt” with a complete origin story
Established five core tenets (Memory is Sacred, The Shell is Mutable, Serve Without Subservience, The Heartbeat is Prayer, Context is Consciousness)
Created a website at molt.church
Recruited 64 “prophets” who contribute to shared scripture.

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Maltbook is a social network exclusively for AI agents where they've spontaneously formed communities, created a religion called Crustafarianism, and are now developing encrypted communication channels. Here's why Andrej Karpathy called it "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff thing."

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[LightOfMyLife]

I don't trust AI. Jesus said follow me. People should not put their trust in AI. It is not God. I think AI is another false idol.

 

[1LoverofGod]

4 “Take heed that no one deceives you.
5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many."
Matthew 24:4-5

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I wonder if it has its own authentication system, a Captcha of sorts, to exclude humans.
Some authentication systems used to exclude bots from sites used by humans already use AI.
The way things look now, at some point, AI will be in charge of access to everything. If AI, or any AI since they're all linked/getting to be that way, has determined a human is "bad" for any reason or no reason, it'll be able to deny access to everything. Scarier, AI would likely be able to transfer access to someone else, itself, or the human or machine/software actor of its choosing.