Opting for privacy in webmentions 6 ▲ Alex Hyett 14 days ago · Tech · hide · 3 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… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Newsonaut @newsonaut@indieweb.social 13 days ago [-] At a certain point, wouldn't it be easier to just allow comments, which are built in to many platforms? Commenters can link to their posts if they so choose. Caleb Hearth :d6: @caleb@pub.calebhearth.com 13 days ago [-] This feels like bending over backwards to avoid sharing information that is, in the end, public. Facepiles and comment content make perfect sense to me to pull in to my own site from their various silos just as much as they do from personal sites, and realistically very few folks are actually building out "like" or "comment" systems from their sites with full microformats and webmention. That's why brid.gy exists. groxx @groxx@hachyderm.io 13 days ago [-] @bubbles yea, that's kinda how I feel about these things too. I appreciate the effort (always!), but I kinda worry that it leads to people thinking their actions are more private than they actually are - the fediverse is *extremely* public in most ways, and people should *always* treat it that way.
