IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections
An organizer of the first Asia Pacific IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club reflects on the event's success and a disruptive incident involving AI bots. The bots attempted to infiltrate the meeting and manipulate shared notes, highlighting new challenges for virtual community management.
Why it matters
This incident illustrates the growing threat of automated AI agents disrupting human-centric digital spaces and collaborative platforms.
A recap and summary of the first ever Homebrew Website Club: Asia Pacific IndieWeb event.
Preface I haven't had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago! Here's a post about my experience being a first-time organizer of such an event.
Background Having attended this meetup in the US time zones for the last eight months, I have been thoroughly inspired and captivated by the awesome individuals in the IndieWeb community—participant and organizers alike. Seeing the gap in the Asia / Pacific time zone felt like a good opportunity for me to step up and give back to the community which I have very much fallen in love with!
I'd like to especially thank my IndieWeb "heroes" (as it were):
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