There's a useful summary on the wikipedia page for 'Linkback' [1] describing how Webmention differs from other similar schemes.
Things like Pingback and Trackback seemed to be all the rage for a few months, back in the day. They then seemed to cease being talked about - either discussion has bypassed me, or they just carry on being used, seamlessly, or they've failed. It would be great to see something like this really take off, though, especially since many bloggers started turning off comments.
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There's a useful summary on the wikipedia page for 'Linkback' [1] describing how Webmention differs from other similar schemes.
Things like Pingback and Trackback seemed to be all the rage for a few months, back in the day. They then seemed to cease being talked about - either discussion has bypassed me, or they just carry on being used, seamlessly, or they've failed. It would be great to see something like this really take off, though, especially since many bloggers started turning off comments.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback