original post link

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An original post link is a hyperlink from a POSSE copy to its original indieweb post.

Why

You should post original post links on a POSSE copy of your original post in order to make it:

more clear that the POSSE copy is a copy
easier for humans to click through to the original post
enable original-post-discovery for readers and other uses like preferring to link to and display original comments instead of their POSSE copies.

When you post a POSSE copy, you should link to it at or near the end of the content of your POSSE copy with text like:

(Originally posted at : URL)

This was originally posted on my own site.

For shorter POSSE destinations like Twitter and Foursquare, consider using a simple trailing permashortlink.

Ideally you original post links should use rel=canonical as well.

Tantek Çelik has been posting original post links (as plain permashortlinks, and then later sometimes as permashortcitations) on his POSSE tweet copies since 2010-01-26.

There are many more indieweb examples on specific silo POSSE pages that should be incorporated here, e.g.:

Jeremy Keith has been posting original post links to Medium copies of his posts since 2015-???.

original post: https://adactio.com/journal/9814
- POSSE Medium post: https://medium.com/@adactio/home-screen-ffdda18b9de8
  - original post link text at end of post:
    This was originally posted on my own site.
    where the phrase “on my own site” is hyperlinked to the original.

Bridgy Publish has the option (default) of posting an original post link along with your POSSE copy.

has original post link text at end of post:

(Originally published at: http://tantek.com/2015/318/t1/thoughts-friends-colleagues-paris)

where the URL is in the text content and auto-linked by Facebook