rel-syndication

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Publishers

A permalink for a blog post should hyperlink with rel="syndication" to copies that the author has syndicated onto other sites.

This is a page to page relationship, and thus blog posts in aggregate form, e.g. archive pages, home/updates pages, should NOT use rel="syndication".

Consuming applications can use rel=syndication in a number of ways:

site specific post and other webaction buttons can discover the syndicated copy for their site.
connecting POSSE'd comment posts to each other and to the POSSE'd copies of original posts. See http://indiewebcamp.com/comment#POSSE_a_comment for more.

In addition rel=syndication on links from a blog post to syndicated copies of it, those links can also have the markup:

class="u-syndication" which will likely get picked up as part of their containing h-entry object.

Advantages:

Blog posts can use on links to syndicated copies, in any context, e.g. blog posts in aggregate form like archive pages or home/updates pages, may use class="u-syndication".

Sites that are using rel="syndication"

On all their blog posts/notes automatically:

On some blog posts: