aaronpk

It refers to the property of FedCM that means nothing about your account is revealed to the website until you click the "Continue As" button. In other words, alternatives to this that use third-party cookies enable tracking you between websites without any user interaction.

"nothing inherently bad" other than:

(a list of things that are specifically bad implementations)

In my demos the OAuth flow completes so fast you can't even tell it happened, you don't even see the address bar change to the IdP the second time you do a flow when you already have a session there.

I have chosen to interpret your response as sarcasm

Exactly. Even in a relatively dense location, I have a new automation that runs when my cameras detect a person, both blaring a siren outside as well as notifying me in the house. Now about half a dozen times, it has stopped someone from getting farther than a few feet on the property, whereas without it I had people sneaking around looking for unlocked doors.

sorry my sarcasm didn't make it through the computer screen

what if data collection as a hobby is the end goal

Discord is just fancy IRC

oh hi. Yes I moved to Libera a while back and am still there regularly.

No it was just a bad take

> edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action

This is a good idea, and if I were re-making this service new in 2021 I would definitely do this. However I launched this in 2012 as a barebones implementation to get webmentions working for a few of my websites and never bothered to develop it much past that point.

The good news is everyone who receives webmentions can decide what it looks like themselves! In fact you'll see quite a lot of variation in how these are displayed on people's websites. Everything from a list of comments, to just a list of URLs, to a grid of faces with no text!

eta: There is also no requirement that the receiver of a webmention displays it! You could just as well use it for private notifications of the links.