manton
manton

Webmention for long or short posts: manton.org

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dave
dave

@manton I think comments are peers of the posts the are in response to. You see this clearly in social networks, sometimes a comment gets huge interest when the thing it was in reply to was a nothing burger. In my software there is no distinction.

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manton
manton

@dave The nice thing is every platform can have a slightly different way of handling that, and it’s fine. For a blog that is primarily longer posts, maybe treating posts and responses as peers doesn’t fit as well.

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downread.bsky.social
downread.bsky.social

@manton I think the actual issue is a hole in the webmention spec. When linking the webmention server from the web page, that link should also contain commenting rules, whether the mentioning post will be republished, and ToS.

I am trying to address these holes (and more) in an RFC for feed-to-feed commenting:

github.com/bigwide-n…

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manton
manton

@downread.bsky.social Oh, this is really interesting! Thanks for pointing me to it.

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