Burrow is being updated to match the new functionality. Burrow had some version of mentions already. It will use the default way now.
\nAlso adding a couple of more Burrow specific customizations like being able to pin a thread so that you can find and update it easily
\n\n\n\n","content_hash":"sha256:e837fb6c2f50e1ea2810ba3e64d5075d3aeb9abad13bb5fd864a082fce4228ae","media":[],"transclusions":[{"id":"77c851anyrddbd5v12ednhq4qx","version":1,"origin":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/","cited":{"source":"Venkatesh Rao's Blyg","author":"Venkatesh Rao","excerpt":"Okay so mentions are finally here in Studio. Other full-featured clients should…","url":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/t/77c851anyrddbd5v12ednhq4qx/","retrieved":"2026-11-07T05:08:45Z"}}],"stub_of":{"origin":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/","id":"77c851anyrddbd5v12ednhq4qx","version":1,"cited":{"source":"Venkatesh Rao's Blyg","author":"Venkatesh Rao","excerpt":"Okay so mentions are finally here in Studio. Other full-featured clients should…","url":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/t/77c851anyrddbd5v12ednhq4qx/","retrieved":"2026-11-07T05:08:45Z"}},"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-11-07T05:08:45Z","note":null}]}Okay so mentions are finally here in Studio. Other full-featured clients should plan to support this.
\nBuilt against RFC-1/TN-6 and incorporating a suggestion from @Aneesh Sathe about found mentions (since mentions don’t send notifications they have to be discovered in inbound feed items on the receiving side)
\n\n\n\nWhat a mention is
\nType @ada while writing. When you publish, it becomes a link to Ada, under the name you gave.
\nThat's most of it. The handle ada is your own shorthand and stays private to you. Readers see "@Ada Ruiz", linked to wherever you said Ada can be found.
\nA mention notifies nobody. It's closer to writing someone's name with a link than to tagging them on a social network. Nothing is sent to Ada, and no count of mentions exists anywhere.
\nAnd re found mentions
\n\n\n\nFinding out when someone mentions you
\nSince a mention notifies nobody, how would you ever know? Your own reader can look.
\nAlso since mentions now means people, quotes and stubs are now called responses even though they use the webmention protocol.
\nMentions are ordinary links but carry rel=me/h-card data invisibly with other socials for clients that understand that convention.
\n\nQuick background on the two conventions, since mentions lean on both.
\nrel=me is a microformat for saying "this other page is also me." You add
\nrel="me"to a link pointing at one of your profiles elsewhere, such as a Mastodon account or a GitHub page. It becomes verifiable when the link goes both ways: if that profile links back to your page withrel="me"too, a client can be fairly confident the same person controls both. It's the same mechanism Mastodon uses for its green checkmark on profile links, and IndieAuth uses it for sign-in.h-card is a microformats2 vocabulary for describing a person or organization in ordinary HTML. Class names mark up the pieces:
\nh-cardon the container,p-namefor the display name,u-urlfor the main link,u-photofor an avatar, and so on. A parser reads those classes and gets structured profile data, with no separate API or JSON needed.Together, a mention can be a plain link to a human and still say who that person is and where else they live online.
\nThanks to Aneesh for helping think this through.
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