Like of “webmentions make me sad” by Alex Sirac
I love webmentions. I love the concept of them and I love how they allow for high-quality conversations and sharing.
I’m just sometimes tired of high quality stuff, you know? Sometimes, all I want is to comment on someone’s post to say « lol » or « nice thanks for sharing » or « saaame! » and that’s not something that warrants a whole blog post and entry in my RSS feed.
Ironically, given the effort I’m going to to “like” this post (but also simultaneously reply?! see, what even are webmentions), I totally agree. Also, given the debate about the ethics of “backfeeding” public replies on platforms like Mastodon as webmentions back to your own site (cf. one blog post on that topic ). Recently I’ve been wondering if it wouldn’t be better to add something like Tinylytics ’ kudos for “likes” and maybe even on-site comments, instead. I like the idea of webmentions, but I can’t help but feel they’re so clunky 🙁