Lucas Gonze (Twitter)If you have a blog, how do you track reply posts on other blogs? Do you use refback, linkback, trackback, or webmention? Do you get enough reply posts to make the setup worthwhile?
— Lucas Gonze (@lucas_gonze) March 5, 2020
Refbacks were almost all noise and very little signal for me. Pingbacks/Trackback look dreadful and aren’t well supported anymore, so I don’t receive many. Webmentions have been AWESOME and just required two simple plugins for WordPress. My very small personal site has gotten over 6,000 reactions/replies in the past year (with the help of backfeed, particularly from Brid.gy.)
The real win is that I can use my own website to converse with others and don’t need the big social silos the way I did several years ago.
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Super helpful. Thanks, Chris.
What plugin do you use?
I’ve gone full IndieWeb, but for the Webmention piece you’ll want the Webmention plugin and the Semantic Linkbacks plugin. If you want to go full-bore, which I suspect you may based on what I see on your website, who you’re following, and how you’re using it, you might want to start here. (Nice blogroll by the way.)
I’ve got a collection of posts about some of my previous explorations if you’re interested.
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I’ve gone full IndieWeb, but for Webmention you’ll want the Webmention & Semantic Linkbacks plugins. If you want to go full-bore, which I suspect you may based on what I see on your website, who you’re following, and how you’re using it, you [more…]
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Interested in your q @lucas_gonze about whether webmentions are worth time & effort? I think it is important to be mindful about expectation. Webmentions are useful, but still have limitations. Personally though, they’ve revolutionised my web experience collect.readwriterespond.com/lucas-gonze-on…