Today is the 1 year anniversary of the Webmention REC from the @W3C @SocialWebWG! w3.org/TR/2017/REC-webmentio… And over 1 million webmentions have been sent peer-to-peer on the #openweb snarfed.org/1-million-webmen… Come celebrate! 2018-01-24: indieweb.org/events/2018-01-… (ttk.me t4sP1)

1 Million Webmentions

We’re celebrating 1 million webmentions successfully sent in the wild! We’re still narrowing down the exact number and when we crossed the threshold, but we estimate sometime in Decembe…

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Meanwhile 4 million Facebook Likes happened in the time it took to write this tweet. I get the DIY ethos, but ship has sailed.
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@junglecode I'm kind of surprised by that defeatist tone coming from someone who works at Mozilla.
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I've been closely following this work for *many* years now, and I don't see it scaling beyond the DIY scene. I don't think that's defeatist--there are other battles to fight and win.
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Replying to @junglecode @t @w3c @SocialWebWG
I've been *working* on this for many years, and hitting 1 million is a pretty exciting milestone! There's obviously still a long way to go, but it's important to celebrate the small victories along the way.

Jan 13, 2018 · 6:30 PM UTC
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