Oooh I like a lot.<p>The whole idea of a two-way links like the wp pingbacks in the good old days is getting traction. For more info about this, see <a href="https://indieweb.org/Webmention" rel="nofollow">https://indieweb.org/Webmention</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback</a><p>Another useful related thing I saw is <a href="https://brid.gy/" rel="nofollow">https://brid.gy/</a> which transforms social mentions into webmentions
At first, I didn't get it. Pingbacks, isn't that from the 90s?<p>Then, I thought: does this mean the bar for joining a conversation on my publication is that you have to publish something too?<p>That seems like a nice bar to set for asking both parties in a conversation to be fully engaged. Trolls seem like they will be too lazy to do that.
I'm too young to know what are webmentions or pingbacks (love the band Pinback though), you should briefly mention what they are on your homepage.
Excellent concept, project & service. I'm using it together with Brid.gy[1] on my Hugo-hosted blog[2] and it's great for bringing in Twitter likes of posts.<p>[1] <a href="https://brid.gy/" rel="nofollow">https://brid.gy/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://justinmiller.io/posts/2020/12/23/ornament/" rel="nofollow">https://justinmiller.io/posts/2020/12/23/ornament/</a>
Webmentions are a great way of getting back to a decentralized web. Being able to comment on someone else's site _from your own site_ feels like magic. It brings back memories of the web before social media took hold.<p>Implementation is pretty simple, too. I documented how I handled processing and display of webmentions on <a href="http://tanzawa.blog" rel="nofollow">http://tanzawa.blog</a> (a system I'm developing designed to make using the IndieWeb easier/less fiddly).
So here's my question: HN as far as I can tell doesn't explicitly integrate with webmention, but I'm assuming webmention.io <i>does</i> use it. Does that mean the owner @aaronpk <i>does</i> get a mention every time webmention is linked, say, from Hacker News? The docs don't make it clear, but if in fact, it does, this seems like a killer concept for HN users who want to be notified (among other times) when their service/blog/whatever is shared to HN<p>edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action
Not meant to flame: why do people want these? They always just seemed like spam cluttering up an article's comments, removing the space for actual discussion.
I don't have anything against jQuery, but isn't it a bit weird to have that be the example in 2020? Wouldn't `fetch` just work fine there...?
Previous discussion on HN, "Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions"<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258557" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258557</a>
Not exactly the same, but I've been using <a href="https://f5bot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://f5bot.com/</a> for a while now. Sends me a notification any time specified keywords are found on Reddit, HN, etc. Great service with no fees.
I feel like this needs to be more of a browser extension than a per-site thing. You'd be able to see all the places that link to this page that have been created or seen by a group that you're in.
Why does this want permission to read my tweets? That wasn't clear at all putting my website and clicking the submit button. I'm sure it's fine, but I didn't grant it and backed out.
I've been using Webmention.io on my own site (<a href="https://rasulkireev.com" rel="nofollow">https://rasulkireev.com</a>) and it works beautifully.<p>A lot of frameworks and static site builders have a plugin to integrate webmentions on one site.<p>I believe this came from the Indieweb movement, which I am a huge fun of.
So, this is a service that acts as a proxy for webmentions, right? I'm guessing a good use case would be for a static site e.g. hosted on github pages?
Pingbacks are back, baby! What is old is new again, except this time is centralized, so hopefully with less spam but also less independence once FAANG acquire the service.
tip for those considering this - i use clientside webmentions for this so that it doesnt add to my build times - and lazy load it so it doesnt drain visitor battery/data:<p><a href="https://www.swyx.io/clientside-webmentions/" rel="nofollow">https://www.swyx.io/clientside-webmentions/</a>