Read Open Letter to the Gatsby Open Source Community by Kyle MathewsKyle Mathews (Gatsby)
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Given the accusations and specifics that prompted this letter, it definitely comes off as disingenuous and fake corporate speak. I don’t want to touch the platform with a 10 foot pole… He addresses some of the controversy, but doesn’t actually indicate any actual plan for change.
Replied to a tweet by Matthias Ott Matthias Ott (Twitter)
Oh, we’re reading you Tania Rascia (@taniarascia)! Even easier for you it looks like Chris Biscardi (@chrisbiscardi) has already built out some infrastructure for webmentions on Gatsby(@gatsbyjs).
https://indieweb.org/gatsby#Plugins

Chris has written a bit about his process as well: Building Gatsby Plugin Webmentions.