I'm a big fan of machine-readable metadata. It's useful for programs which need to extract information from messy and complicated websites. It's always surprising where it turns up. For example, take this post of mine on LinkedIn. If you view the source, you'll see this scrap of linked data: <script type="applicati…
@Edent Love to see support for this- I hadn't messed with Schema.org metadata much until recently, but when building the @kuow_bot (since they don't support RSS, grr), it was super handy since they publish pretty extensive metadata that way
@Edent you mention "it would be incredibly useful if other social media platforms like Mastodon used this" - would the ActivityPub representation of a post count? it's a standardised format available for every post published, accessible at e.g. https://mastodon.social/@Edent/110593317512193678.json (or, more universally, if the Accept header is application/ld+json)
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