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likesThis article is a stub. You can help the IndieWebCamp wiki by expanding it. 👍 likes are sometimes part of the information about a post displayed on the post itself, sometimes in a post footer, like a total number like responses, icons of recent likers, or even a datetime ordered list of likes. WhyBy displaying a summary of likes of your post, you show that there are (and can be more) some light interaction with your post. It also shows immediate feedback to those that have responded to your posts with their own indie like responses. How toHow to displayThere are many methods for displaying the likes under a post, including:
In all such methods, consider linking from the specific face or chronological response item to the permalink of the respective indie like of your post. If you are showing silo likes of POSSE copies of your posts, from silos that lack permalinks for such like posts / responses, then you may link them to the user liking your post as a fallback. How to de-duplicateIf you POSSE a post to a silo, then it is possible that someone posting an indie like of your post will also POSSE their like to that silo, thus resulting your post seemingly seeing two likes from the same one like from that person. Examples:
Since those likes represent only a single actual liking action (the liking of the POSSE copy is just a mirroring of that action to a silo for silo-only readers to see), your post should de-duplicate any such likes of POSSE copies of your posts, and show only a single like, no matter what your display design is for likes. Duplicate likes can also happen if you POSSE to more than one silo and one person likes your post in more than one silo. In that case, consider preserving all of them, and maybe cluster them, but don't de-dupe. There's no consensus yet though. Up to you! You can de-duplicate likes by looking for the indie like of your post to explicitly have a like-of link to the POSSE copy of your post, and if such, you know you can count that like of the POSSE copy as a duplicate (and do not need to display it). Alternatively, you can fetch the user's h-card on their site, look for rel-me links, and use those to de-dupe based on the h-card in the backfed silo like (aka POSSE copy). When you detect such duplicate likes on silo copies of your posts, you should prefer and show only the indie like on your likes display on your post. Related: IndieWeb ExamplesThere are a few IndieWeb sites which receive and handle webmentions for like posts and display them in various ways (as a facepile, as a list, mixed in with other interactions like reposts and comments). Ben Werdmuller
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Silo ExamplesSilos such as Facebook and Instagram show the number of likes on posts in various ways: "👍 so-and-so and nn others liked this"
"17 likes" - for 11(?) or more likes.
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