Today's project: gonna finally see if I can wrestle webmentions to the ground. Never been able to get it working properly but I like the idea of rolling my own glitch webmentions server like this: qubyte.codes/blog/a-new-serv…

Qubyte Codes - A new service to handle webmention dispatch for you

Webmentions are a great way of letting folk know when you're talking about their content on your own blog, but they can be a little fiddly to implement. A new service from Remy Sharp automates the...

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Setting up Webmentions TL;DR: - Enable h-card markup - Add webmention.io support - Write custom JS to display webmention.io API - Sign up for Brid.gy for social webmentions - Sign up for webmention.app
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(cont.) - Set up IFTTT for RSS -> webmention.app to send webmentions Fin? Maybe? I count 4 different web-apps necessary *and* two different code markups needed to get this all working correctly. Webmentions is a failed system.
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Replying to @tomcritchlow
Not sure I understand why this is "failed"? I'm guessing you are using a static site generator. That's going to give you lots of problems trying to do anything dynamic, kind of by definition.

Nov 1, 2019 · 2:34 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk
I was *just* about to come back around and thank you and Remy for building these servies for starters. So thank you! Yes, this is a partial failure of static sites but it still just feels like an over-engineered solution. I know lots of bloggers and so few of them use webmention
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Today's project is all about trying to install them and get them working so I can try and help move things forward and make easier.