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Well, the technology is there already, with Webmention support. https://indieweb.org/Webmention https://indieweb.org/Webmention I have these enabled on my own

Well, the technology is there already, with Webmention support. https://indieweb.org/Webmention https://indieweb.org/Webmention I have these enabled on my own blog via the WordPress Bridgy plugin, which can report back on links to your article from Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and Flickr. https://indieweb.org/Bridgy https://indieweb.org/Bridgy I doubt any of these "Disqus-like" services support this, because it sounds like it's solving a different problem. (Although it'd be useful if they did support it, the way earlier blogging systems display "pingbacks" as if they were comments.

KajMagnus 9y ago
This was interesting :- ) Doesn't seem to work so well with Facebook to me? If I write a blog post and use Brid.gy: I'm getting the impression Brid.gy (https://brid.gy/ https://brid.gy/) only lets me see [mentions about the blog post] that my Facebook account can see? If there's a public discussion about the blog post, somewhere at Facebook in a group of people I'm not connected with — then Brid.gy won't find it? Is that how it works in general? I mean, the blog & web-mentions tech, will find web-mentions, only about things the blog author can see, via his/her own social media accounts? I'm then getting the feeling that ... if a blog gets popular, shared and discussed a lot at Facebook etc, 99% of all discussions & shares etc, won't be found, because the blog author isn't connected to those people on the relevant social media places. (?)
zaarn 9y ago
Webmention is quite a cool tech, though it seems to have a very low adoption outside the indieweb community. The validation tool seems to be broken too [0] [1] and a lack of compliance [2] in the community. It's probably also not good that there is only one test suite, I'd feel more comfy if I could validate against more independent suites. [0] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/26 https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/26 [1] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/32 https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/32 [2] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/27 https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/27

KajMagnus 9y ago

This was interesting :- ) Doesn't seem to work so well with Facebook to me? If I write a blog post and use Brid.gy: I'm getting the impression Brid.gy (https://brid.gy/ https://brid.gy/) only lets me see [mentions about the blog post] that my Facebook account can see? If there's a public discussion about the blog post, somewhere at Facebook in a group of people I'm not connected with — then Brid.gy won't find it? Is that how it works in general? I mean, the blog & web-mentions tech, will find web-mentions, only about things the blog author can see, via his/her own social media accounts? I'm then getting the feeling that ... if a blog gets popular, shared and discussed a lot at Facebook etc, 99% of all discussions & shares etc, won't be found, because the blog author isn't connected to those people on the relevant social media places. (?)

zaarn 9y ago

Webmention is quite a cool tech, though it seems to have a very low adoption outside the indieweb community. The validation tool seems to be broken too [0] [1] and a lack of compliance [2] in the community. It's probably also not good that there is only one test suite, I'd feel more comfy if I could validate against more independent suites. [0] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/26 https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/26 [1] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/32 https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/32 [2] https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/27 https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.rocks/issues/27