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One thing I wish I could easily augment with RSS is the ability to send and discover webmentions. I would love to read something in my RSS feed, respond to it,
by j2kun 2y ago
One thing I wish I could easily augment with RSS is the ability to send and discover webmentions. I would love to read something in my RSS feed, respond to it, and post a webmention back to the original author. I'd also like to be able to see in the RSS feed what other pages have posted webmentions to the page I'm reading.
- pluc 2y agoYou are describing Postbacks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postback https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postback
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoI don't think this Wikipedia page is describing the thing you think it is. Maybe it's the wrong link?
- sltkr 2y agoHe's probably thinking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoI think you're right. It's a shame that this was so vulnerable to abuse. Webmentions as a concept is such a great idea. Maybe the more recent implementation is better, but it doesn't seem like many people (relatively speaking) are familiar with the idea.
- pluc 2y agoCorrect! Thanks for correcting
- mawise 2y agoI have opinions[1] on Webmentions. It sounds like such a great approach, but it also opens up the original author to hosting mountains of spam and other low-quality comments, and moderation is a lot of work. Arguably, we see the same problem today on sites that let you post comments. [1] https://havenweb.org/2023/04/10/private-comments.html https://havenweb.org/2023/04/10/private-comments.html
- j2kun 2y agoTrue, but mostly what I want is to see what other _articles_ are written in response, less about comments.
- mxuribe 2y agoWhat you're referring to @j2kun is named a *social reader*. See: https://indieweb.org/social_reader https://indieweb.org/social_reader I'm sure there other examples of software/clients besides those portrayed on indieweb.org too.