Simple WebMentions Setup

What is a WebMention?

When you link to a website, you can send it a Webmention to notify it. If it supports Webmentions, then that website may display your post as a comment, like, or other response, and presto, you’re having a conversation from one site to another!

— indieweb.org/webmention

What is a WebMention?

tldr; The open, alternative to Pingback.
Federated interactions across sites.

Examples

POSSE

Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

Implement it yourselves!

Setup IndieAuth

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Read tutorial on indieweb.org

Simple blog post example

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Register Webmention.io

for receiving and sending responses

Return Value Example

WM Replies & Twitter, Mastodon and Instagram Comments/Replies
WM Likes & Twitter, Mastodon and Instagram Likes
WM Reposts & Twitter and Mastodon Retweets/Boosts

GitHub Action Trick

Display the responses

More Frameworks

Bridgy for Social Media Responses

« Back to Return Example

Comment Parade*
for anonymous reply

*needs micropub endpoint

Superfeedr* with Telegraph
for Truly Crawling the Web

*paid service

Thanks!

See the slides on slides.ybbond.id/webmentions.