responses
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responses, or interactions, in the context of the indieweb, refer to all the different ways and things people explicitly do to and with others’s posts, from written replies to quick likes, in other words responses = replies + reactions. Common response post types are reply (comment), like (favorite), repost (reshare), and mere mentions.
Contents
Response Post Types
Sometimes a response, or possible use-case:
Displaying a response post
See the individual "How to" sections in the above Response Post Types. E.g.
Displaying responses to a post
See the following pages for how individual posts display a summary of responses to those posts:
IndieWeb Examples
See the lists on each of the specific response post type pages.
This section is for examples that show a wide variety of response post types.
Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki has a good example of a photo post with responses from Twitter (via Bridgy), and various Mastodon profiles on different servers: https://aaronparecki.com/2019/01/11/28/
- "How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post." @Aaron Parecki January 11, 2019
Silo Examples
Nearly all silos (Twitter or Facebook for example) support some forms of interaction.
History
There was some discussion to get rough consensus around what to call the set of things that is replies/comments, reposts/reshares, likes/favorites. This resulted in deciding on the term "responses" as well as "reactions".
See Also
- post/posts
- Example lists of responses by type: https://snarfed.org/responses
- interactions page