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@mrkrndvs I'm curious if you manually cut & paste your replies for others' sites (who may not support webmention or even pingback/trackback) into their old-school comments sections?

I often worry that without that, or without replying to versions on Twitter if they syndicated, they won't see my response via pingback/trackback or other means. Instead my reply sits all alone on my site and they don't have the benefit of seeing it at all unless they come across it organically otherwise.

Generally when I manually cut and paste replies, I'll often use the comment's "website" field to include the permalink for my comment and then I'll take the permalink for my comment and add it to my syndication links since I've manually syndicated it.

Sometimes I notice that including multiple links in a reply can also run afoul of spam filters.

One of my favorite set of machinations occurred recently when I wrote this reply to Jon Udell: http://boffosocko.com/2018/01/07/reply-to-annotating-web-audio-by-jon-udell/

Jon came back to his original post and appended his own comment to document my comment in the most circuitous of manners which included using his annotation tool Hypothes.is: https://blog.jonudell.net/2018/01/06/annotating-web-audio/#comment-474656

Interestingly we both used WordPress, Hypothes.is, and Twitter to carry on the conversation. I was quite impressed that he took the time to circle back around and document my end of the conversation since he must have missed my pingback (he doesn't have webmentions) and my manual cut & paste, but did manage to see the notification on Twitter.

It all just goes to show that you've got to keep your eye on the tech that you and everyone else is using until it's broadly and evenly distributed. One day perhaps...

 

You know it's a major problem when a serious mathematician doesn't know the cardinality of his fleeces. https://twitter.com/JSEllenberg/status/951903727014772736?s=09

 

Important words, particularly when they come from a professor of cognitive science and linguistics: https://twitter.com/GeorgeLakoff/status/951173315158147072

 
 

Another secret would be to add the twitter meta data so that the visually impaired using screen readers can read the text on the syndicated copies.
https://twitter.com/_Red_Long/status/948577112860086272

 
 
 

@muchospanish As a case in point, in just a minute of mock up, try this:
http://boffosocko.com/2017/12/22/what-did-i-just-see-over-southern-california/
It's not as slick as for Twitter because of Instagram's limitations, but it works! Instagram will sadly only let me collect up to 10 likes though.

 

@muchospanish Instagram doesn't have the extensive API (esp. write API) that Twitter does. Though on my site's photo posts, I do include a syndication link to the copy on Instagram. One could click on that to comment/like, and those come back to my site the same way. :)

 

@SanneLeidl your Twitter bio leads me to believe you'd appreciate @EatPodcast
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/

 
 

@dcastelvecchi It took about a month after reporting, but Twitter has finally suspended @scienmag
http://boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/scienmag.png

 

I'm joining @aaronpk and @cleverdevil tonight in . Are you joining us? https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/941079711261720576

 

Dear @Twitter @TwitterSupport, I've found a . I can't tag @t in an uploaded photo on web UI, because the drop down doesn't find his username.

 

@ricmac I think you've talked me into deleting the Twitter app on my phone. I'm replacing it with RSS feeds from just a few select and highly curated Twitter lists instead using https://twitter-atom.appspot.com/.