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I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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744 points DearNarwhal | 2 comments | 16 Jan 25 12:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.602s | source
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j2kun ◴[16 Jan 25 17:45 UTC] No.42728400[source]▶
One thing I wish I could easily augment with RSS is the ability to send and discover webmentions. I would love to read something in my RSS feed, respond to it, and post a webmention back to the original author. I'd also like to be able to see in the RSS feed what other pages have posted webmentions to the page I'm reading.
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1. mawise ◴[16 Jan 25 18:38 UTC] No.42729110[source]▶
I have opinions[1] on Webmentions. It sounds like such a great approach, but it also opens up the original author to hosting mountains of spam and other low-quality comments, and moderation is a lot of work. Arguably, we see the same problem today on sites that let you post comments.

[1] https://havenweb.org/2023/04/10/private-comments.html

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2. j2kun ◴[16 Jan 25 20:01 UTC] No.42730139[source]▶
True, but mostly what I want is to see what other _articles_ are written in response, less about comments.