This sounds like what Webmention enables. This tweet for ... • Aaron Parecki

Scott Jenson https://twitter.com/scottjenson • Dec 10
#indieweb folks. there are a ton of self hosted commenting systems. But what about a "universal comment" system? Where all of my comments, on any site I use, are just links back to my server. I own/host all of my comments. I'm assuming this has been discussed?

This sounds like what Webmention enables. This tweet for example is actually a copy of my reply to you that I've posted to my website. It works directly from site to site too of course.

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Kevin Marks twitter.com/kevinmarks
  
  Well, that just about worked on the web, but looks like crap on mobile, so relying on silos to show the text from your site is not a great idea
  
  Thu, Dec 10, 2020 9:20pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Kevin Marks twitter.com/kevinmarks
  
  kevinmarks.com/silo-reply.html
  
  Thu, Dec 10, 2020 8:49pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Pelle Wessman twitter.com/voxpelli
  
  Eg. @lobsters does
  
  Thu, Dec 10, 2020 5:38pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Raphael Luckom twitter.com/RLuckom
  
  I'm interested in the "next step" question too, but I'm not sure I understand what goal you have in mind. I've been taking some time to build and write about potential evolutions / alternatives to social networks, and there are many different, interesting goals in that space.
  
  Thu, Dec 10, 2020 5:34pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  If you're talking about what existing silos can do to play better with the open web, there's no reason they can't also support webmentions natively
  
  Thu, Dec 10, 2020 5:30pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Scott Jenson twitter.com/scottjenson
  
  Excellent thanks. What would be the 'next step'? If we could get social networks to have the tweets/comments ONLY be a link to your website what does that buy us? I appreciate the solution you have but it's about working within the current siloed approach
  
  Thu, Dec 10, 2020 5:26pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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