❤ Liked: webmentions make me sad

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. Every blog without a comment section makes me sad. Every blog that only allows webmentions makes me sad. No, I don’t want to…

❤ Liked: On the subject of Connecting Federated Social Media Networks

The past few days on the Fediverse have served to remind me a few things: 1. The internet is as smart and as ignorant (and everything in between) as the macrocosm known as “human civilization” reflects upon it. 2. Sometimes the victims will become the victimizers in any given situation, usually without them being aware of it. 3. Upon pointing it out to said type above, instead of working to acknowledge and understand, they will double-down under the guise of righteousness, again unwittingly u…

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❤ Liked: Webmentions are just a way to say I linked to you - You don't have to use them as comments

Technology-wise, all webmentions do is send a message of 'I linked to your page'. There is nothing in technology to say that you need to do anything with this - either displaying or checking it.