#Webmention
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This is fantastic! Pine.blog can now receive webmentions for you, and it'll show them to you in the timeline! This is probably the best option for static sites now! https://blog.pine.blog/2020/05/bring-us-your-static-sites-yearning-to-breathe-free/ -
brentsimmons
https://micro.blog/brentsimmons
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Dec 5
@manton I’m still not quite sure why it wasn’t a good idea!
Two reasons:
1: The only data in the Pingback payload is two URLs. Wrapping this an an XML container that's also doing RPC is incredibly overkill for sending just two values. That's why Webmention went with form-encoded instead, like regular HTML forms, which is about the most compact way you can send two values.
2: Pingback never went far enough with the user experience of displaying them. At best, you'd see a snippet of the text near the link, which it turns out wasn't really that useful or contextual. Once social media started taking off, the interactions there became far richer than seeing the pingback excerpt, so people abandoned them. With Webmention, we're explicitly focusing on enabling the kind of rich interactions people do on social media instead. -
Well, I think I've cracked it - after a few weeks of on-and-off work on making my webmention sending not spam everyone (see https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/30/reader-mail-webmention-spam/ ) - it's now not re-sending them if they're successful. This is a good first step, but I'll be improving it to re-send if the post's data has changed since last time it tried (in the future). Note that this isn't quite done yet, expect it to be live tomorrow perhaps.
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My email inbox was so backlogged after @IndieWebSummit that I missed the emails I was getting that webmention.io was about to expire! I've renewed it, so it'll be back up and running shortly!
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Blocking Domains in webmention.io
For the past week or so, I've been getting a series of Pingbacks from a spam blog that reposts a blog post a couple times a day as a new post each time. It's up to about 220 copies of the post, each one having sent me a Pingback, and each one showing up in my reader as a notification, which also causes it to be sent to my phone.continue reading... -
Well this is exciting, https://lobste.rs now supports sending webmentions! 🦐 If someone submits one of your links, now you'll be immediately notified! Congrats on shipping! 🎉
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Sending your First Webmention from Scratch
Webmention is one of the fundamental indieweb building blocks. It enables rich interactions between websites, like posting a comment or favorite on one site from another site. This post will walk you through the simplest way to get started sending webmentions to other sites so that you can use your own site to join the conversations happening on the Indie Web.continue reading...
