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> I guess it doesn’t allow comments unless you mention it from your site? That is the principle yes. However with or without webmention, you can build a public
by southerntofu 6y ago
> I guess it doesn’t allow comments unless you mention it from your site?
That is the principle yes. However with or without webmention, you can build a public commenting system on your website. All it takes is form-processing on a server-side endpoint (to receive comments and filter out spam) and retrieving/formatting comments either on the server site (querying the endpoint whether per-request for dynamic sites, or as part of your build pipeline for static sites).
Webmention is a technology that enables websites to federate using semantic HTML. Comments are an order of magnitude simpler and never ever required any JavaScript or third party service. I never understood why people use Disqus, and i certainly will never enable JavaScript to comment on a website.