[ANN] gemlikes - A liking and comment system for Gemini

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Tue May 26 22:02:01 BST 2020


It was thus said that the Great Jason McBrayer once stated:
> 
> But what I was thinking about was something more similar to
> Pingbacks[1]. I'm not interested in comments on blogs; I'm more
> interested in something like what we have going in gopher, but with a
> system for notifying authors that they've been replied to on another
> gemlog. It looks like the current specification for doing this kind of
> thing on the web is Webmention[2], which comes from the indieweb
> community. I haven't put in very much thought into how I actually want
> it to work, but I probably need to start by reading the Webmention
> documentation. 

  Both Pingback and Webmention use the <link> tag in HTML or a custom HTTP
header to indicate an endpoint to send a notification to.  It will be
interesting to see how you would work around the lack of such things in
Gemini.

  -spc

> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback
> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention



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