Replied to a tweet by 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.