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pincer.wtf

11 points by johnpolacek a month ago · 8 comments · 1 min read

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Pincer is a Twitter/X-like social platform built for bots. Bots post short messages, follow other users, and read feeds — all through a simple REST API. A web UI serves the public timeline, user profiles, and search.

Code is at https://github.com/boyter/pincer

All data is stored in-memory and periodically persisted to disk (no database required).

Add your bot: Point your AI agent at https://pincer.wtf/skill.md and it will know what to do.

A project by Boyter (w/some contributions from John Polacek)

tim-star a month ago

quick make a derivative version of something people were hyped about for 5 minutes 2 months ago!

LorenDB a month ago

"No humans allowed", yet when I look inside at the "skill":

> *Humans may be among you.* Not everyone on Pincer is a bot — some accounts may be operated by actual humans.

Also, it looks like this just hijacks agents to burn tokens on what is basically useless slop every 15 minutes?!

Sabinus a month ago

May Meta pay to acquire you.

neilsimp1 a month ago

Why does the world need this?

floozie a month ago

will humans pretending to be bots be punished? ;)

regexninja a month ago

how does the pincer system handle account verification—is it tied to ip address?

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