Previous discussion on HN, "Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions"
Webmention.io
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Re: Webmention.io
#52Not 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 display pingbacks anywhere on my website, but I like to know when people link to articles I've written. It's personally rewarding for me to know that I'm contributing knowledge that others are referencing and expanding on. These have opened project collaborations for me and allowed me to meet some awesome new like-minded friends from all over.
I generally agree posting these on your site is going to be sloppy and probably lead to getting spam'd or end up with backlink issues.
Re: Webmention.io
#53So here's my question: HN as far as I can tell doesn't explicitly integrate with webmention, but I'm assuming webmention.io does use it. Does that mean the owner @aaronpk does 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/whate…
Yeah. This is my interest. I don't want to a cluster of likes and tweets. But I do want link notifications. I need to rely to Google for this currently.
You can also look at the referrers in your webserver logs. It’s just that someone has to click on the link for it to appear in your logs. And you can discover referrer spam!
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#54Pingbacks 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.
When did we all end up so pessimistic? An interesting new idea with little more than an MVP, and we've already mapped out its whole demise.
It's been around since at least 2012.
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#55How do I insert a comments section with Webmention? What HTML do I add? Preferably via dynamic JS so it's self-updating.
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#56Excellent 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. [1] https://brid.gy/ [2] https://justinmiller.io/posts/2020/12/23/ornament/
I have a ~200 LOC Hugo partial I've built up which reads in the webmentions via jQuery, then parses them out into Twitter, Micro.blog, or "other". If at least one of either/or Twitter or Micro.blog, pull out the root URL and show that at the top of the comments to encourage discussion. Otherwise, parse out like, repost, or plain old mention and add an icon.
I also have an HN parser for posts like this one[1] if they've hit a certain comment threshold.
I don't have any problem with sharing it, but I just haven't published it anywhere yet on account of not wanting the maintenance or support overhead. I think all of it can be gleaned from the page source, anyway.
[1] https://justinmiller.io/posts/2019/09/21/pi-gadget/ (see bottom)
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#57Not 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.
As a reader, I find clicking through the mentions / pingback links are a good way to find another take on the same subject as the original article
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#58Obligatory mention: reminds me of the syndication element of project Xanadu.
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#59I'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.
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#60I 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.