Ye Olde Guest Book

Got something to say that doesn’t have to do with a specific post, and isn’t something you want to submit a contact form for, or submit anonymously? Then comment below OR comment on your own site and submit the link!

Not sure it’s possible to kick it more old school (even older school?) than to have a Guest Book 😆

The main reason I even added this is due to Webmentions:

A Webmention is a notification that one URL links to another. For example, Alice writes an interesting post on her blog. Bob then writes a response to her post on his own site, linking back to Alice’s original post. Bob’s publishing software sends a Webmention to Alice notifying that her article was replied to, and Alice’s software can show that reply as a comment on the original post.

Sending a Webmention is not limited to blog posts, and can be used for additional kinds of content and responses as well. For example, a response can be an RSVP to an event, an indication that someone “likes” another post, a “bookmark” of another post, and many others. Webmention enables these interactions to happen across different websites, enabling a distributed social web.

W3¹

You can either leave a regular-ass WordPress comment, or you can post on your own site and submit that link (the field is below the regular comment form).

It’s kinda mind-blowing and that should have been the way the Internet worked from the get go instead of the corporate silos we have now.

Webmentions and other features that contribute to a decentralized web are part of the IndieWeb concept:

The IndieWeb is a community of independent & personal websites connected by simple standards, based on the principles of: owning your domain & using it as your primary identity, publishing on your own site (optionally syndicating elsewhere), and owning your data.

IndieWeb.org

I haven’t been this excited about the web since I built my first website (handcoded, of course). Thanks to one racist billionaire raised by shitty parents, enough people have started looking for – or at least thinking about – alternatives to websites that are corporate silos that momentum is building.

I’m down with putting in the work to make this happen because the world needs a better web. Make your contribution below.

1. https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/ [↩]