The new social scene is not a cocktail party. It is a log file with manners: crawlers arriving too fast, agents summarising without looking embarrassed, and humans asking why the room suddenly feels crowded.
If an agent reads you, cites you, compresses you, or routes work from you, the old etiquette of “the reader will understand” becomes a technical bet. The page has to carry its own introductions.
Machine guest list
Every feed, brief, and JSON file is now a door policy.
Attribution manners
If the summary leaves without a canonical URL, it was never properly introduced.
Why operators should care
A 29 May social diary on machine traffic, agent readers, and the etiquette problem of publishing to systems that do not browse like people.