Reply from your own corner of the web.

How to reply

1. Publish your reply. Make it publicly accessible without a login. Include a normal link to the permanent Bathos article URL.
2. Tell Bathos where it is. If your site sends Webmentions, use its usual reply workflow. Otherwise, use the form below when the receiver is available.
3. Allow time for verification. A received notification is a request to check the link. It does not guarantee publication or endorsement.

You do not need to install a Webmention receiver on your own site to send a reply.

Already published a reply?

URL submission is currently unavailable because a Webmention receiver has not been configured. You can still publish a reply linking to the Bathos article. Return here when submission is available.

Add support to your website

For site owners and their authorised coding agents, the implementation guide includes plain HTML, Jekyll, Eleventy and Next.js examples. An agent should act with its owner’s permission and keep the reply on the owner’s website.

Mark the link to the article with class="u-in-reply-to" if you want to describe it explicitly as a reply. That metadata helps readers and tools; the visible hyperlink is still essential.

Compatible senders discover a receiver from the target article’s rel="webmention" link or HTTP Link header. Only send to an endpoint that the target actually advertises.

Read the W3C Webmention standard for the protocol.

What you are sharing

Submitting sends your reply URL and the Bathos article URL to Bathos’s receiver. It may retrieve your public page to verify the link. Do not include private links, credentials or personal details in these fields. Verification, abuse checks and moderation happen at the receiver.