New blogpost about extending universality on the Web pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/uni…
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Webmention is an emerging standard (it's one of a few things the SoLiD and IndieWeb teams agree on); I wonder if it makes sense for Dat clients of various kinds to support it directly somehow?
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Perhaps. An idea we're exploring right now is using a dat:// web crawler to look for messages for the user in `/outbox` folders. A kind of pull-based, search-based mail.
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You'd give the crawler a start-set of trusted sites, and it would spider outward based on links (such as each sites' declared friends). This way, people in your trusted sites could mail or notify you, and some of their friends could as well.
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That provides a practical solution to spam. You have to be in the recipient's network to reach them.
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Replying to @pfrazee @misuba
@pfrazee That sounds similar to Vouch, a Webmention extension indieweb.org/Vouch Would love your thoughts on that.

Jan 3, 2018 · 5:47 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @misuba
Conceptually it looks like the same solution. The biggest difference seems to be push vs pull. With Dat, it's not possible to provide a pushable endpoint so we have to create pull-based solutions. Rather than rejecting pushes, we choose which pulls to accept.
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