Personally, I never write comments on blog posts, but I participate in communities like Hacker News and a couple random subreddits. I prefer including links to

Personally, I never write comments on blog posts, but I participate in communities like Hacker News and a couple random subreddits. I prefer including links to Hacker News or Reddit in the blog post. I'm not interested in handling authentication, moderating users, or dealing with spam. News aggregators usually do a great job with all those points. The Webmention [0] spec solves this problem, but sadly, it hasn't been widely adopted. :( [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention