Opting for privacy in webmentions 0 ▲ Alex Hyett 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments Last week I went full speed into setting up webmentions on my site. My implementation works around using webmention.io in my site's <head> and Bridgy for sending me webmentions for comments, likes and reposts on my posts that I share. Ideally I would like to self-host my webmentions endpoint so I am not relying on another service but I haven't found a suitable replacement yet. Maybe I should just self-host webmentions.io as it is open source. While looking for alternatives I came across this post The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR) by Sebastian Greger. He makes an excellent point when it comes to "silo backfeeds" which in this case is talking about sending webmentions from the Fediverse and Bluesky. My webmention implementation involved showing names and avatars for all the people who liked, reposted or commented on my content including those from the Fediverse. When someone likes or comments on a post on another platform, they aren't necessarily… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.
