Enabling Better Communication on the Internet

Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet by Chris Aldrich

Over 1 million Webmentions will have been sent across the internet since the specification was made a full Recommendation by the W3C—the standards body that guides the direction of the web—in early January 2017. That number is rising rapidly, and in the last few weeks, I’ve seen a growing volume of chatter on social media and the blogosphere about these new “mentions” and the people implementing them.

Chris Aldrich wrote an introduction to Webmentions on ALA.

Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet by Chris Aldrich

Over 1 million Webmentions will have been sent across the internet since the specification was made a full Recommendation by the W3C—the standards body that guides the direction of the web—in early January 2017. That number is rising rapidly, and in the last few weeks, I’ve seen a growing volume of chatter on social media and the blogosphere about these new “mentions” and the people implementing them.

Chris Aldrich wrote an introduction to Webmentions on A List Apart (ALA).

Webmention Deletes

Untitled | David Shanske by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (David Shanske)

Any site that receives webmentions should respect any request to remove their display or purge the information. But webmention itself allows for this. If you send another webmention, it will update. So, if you take down the page, send another webmention and it will purge the comment. There’s even a form built into the Webmention plugin for that.

David, the GDPR is why I have a web application firewall blocking all web traffic originating in the EU. I am researching ways to either remove all commenting except for Webmentions or using another comment system, like Isso, that give the commenter control.

ueberseemaedchen ,I spent some time this weekend testing Webmention deletes and I’m excited at how well it works.

And I agree with what David wrote here:

But, webmentions require affirmative action. You have to link to me. Someone has to send one. If you didn’t want that outcome, why install the plugin that has this feature?

nomentions

https://colinwalker.blog/12-05-2018-0736/ by Colin WalkerColin Walker (colinwalker.blog)

My original use case was to be able to link to a conversation on micro.blog without the post automatically being treated as a reply but there could be other occasions when you don't want to send a mention for whatever reason.

I implemented nomentions on my WordPress website this morning. Thank you!

https://colinwalker.blog/12-05-2018-0736/ by Colin WalkerColin Walker (colinwalker.blog)

My original use case was to be able to link to a conversation on micro.blog without the post automatically being treated as a reply but there could be other occasions when you don't want to send a mention for whatever reason.

@colinwalker, I implemented this on my WordPress website this morning. Thank you!