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		p4bl0 on May 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to self-host comments on your otherwis... So it's just like trackbacks we used to have in the late 2000s?

alxmng on May 7, 2020 [–]

Webmention is the current standard for doing what trackbacks did, and simplified. Webmention doesn’t require any sort of RDF or special code like trackbacks. Verifying a Webmention only involves looking in the HTML for any link to the page being mentioned.

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