Aaron Parecki

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• brentsimmons https://micro.blog/brentsimmons   •   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.

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• A response to replies I received on my post "An Open Challenge to App.net"

  After I posted my article, An Open Challenge to App.net, @po shared it on App.net. You can see the full thread here.

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  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:42am -07:00 #indieweb #appnet #adn #webmention #pingback

• An Open Challenge to App.net

  I am no longer publishing content to my App.net account until I can syndicate my content to their service without writing a single line of code.

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  Thu, Mar 28, 2013 5:35pm -07:00 #indieweb #appnet #adn #webmention #pingback