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Who is this "we" you speak of? Joking, mostly, but webmentions are still a thing and getting a touch more popular in some of my circles. I know not everyone lik
by chipotle_coyote 5y ago
Who is this "we" you speak of? Joking, mostly, but webmentions are still a thing and getting a touch more popular in some of my circles. I know not everyone liked them even back when they were new, but -- with the proviso that they need to be checked for spam just like conventional comments -- I generally found them to be have a better signal-to-noise ratio than all but the rarest (and usually most actively moderated!) comment sections. The effort in setting up a blog capable of receiving pingbacks/webmentions isn't that high, but it's higher than drive-by trolls and cranks are likely to want to put in.
- baby 5y agoMaybe now that they have less support, but back then it was only spam IIRC, or the same blog posted 10 times
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoI think webmention implementations tend to be smarter -- probably not universally, but generally -- about de-duplication than the older pingback implementations were, so you rarely see that weird flood of multiple links to the same place.