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Running any public forum mostly means moderation. Trawling through hundreds of spam comments that got through the filters, to find the occasional jewel, ceased to motivate me.

Should we be sad that discussion about a piece doesn't occur centrally, or is it actually better that several discussions occur - each of them with their hosting venue's specific tone ? As someone else mentioned, webmentions might bring the best of both worlds.

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Do you know if webmentions do anything against spam or if they just defer that problem until the technology gets popular enough for spammers to catch on?

I have not found webmentions-specific antispam processes. I suppose that, a whitelist/greylist/blacklist approach at host level might keep it manageable: if a social host can't moderate its spammers, then it is not worth accepting traffic from.

Yes, it's called Vouch and it's documented well on the indieweb wiki. https://indieweb.org/Vouch

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