Webmentions

Work log

I've written a handful of posts while working with webmentions.

• Webmentions work log 20200117
• Webmentions work log 20200115
• Webmentions work log 20200113
• Working through displaying webmentions
• Now supporting Webmention

May 15th Webmention chat

I attended the "Webmentions Beyond Webmention.io" chat on May 15, 2021 and did a whole bunch of listening. The conversations sparked a bunch of thoughts in my head, but I don't have anything concrete to share yet.

A bunch of links that I gathered from tabs afterwards:

• Session etherpad for the May 15, 2021 webmention chat.
• Webmention brainstorming
• W3C Webmentions
• backfeed
• microsub
• microsub-spec
• webmention.rocks
• XRay is a PHP library that "parses structured content from a URL".
• granary.io
• Indieweb.xyz is a topical syndication site that uses webmentions.

A general receiver framework might include:

• Webmention is received from a sender
• Webmention is validated to ensure sender mentioned URL.
• (Optional) Parse for microformats to turn a "mention" into something more rich.
• (Optional) Store parsed microformat data somewhere.
• (Optional) Provide stored data.

Unprocessed thoughts:

• How to crawl a large number of sites and look for webmention or other indieweb functionality
• WordPress multisite webmention manager for arbitrary (not-necessarily WordPress) sites.
• A webmention receiver on Glitch could be forked and run by others easily.