Webmentions blocked if “comment checkbox” enabled

Hi,

Let me start by saying that I have no idea what the status of Webmentions is re:GDPR, but they’re a big part of the IndieWeb.

I updated a blog for an artist recently and connected it to the Fediverse via Bridgy, so that posts would be syndicated to e.g. Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit… (and in the past X/Twitter, etc.). When people like or boost posts, these webmentions (a specific kind of comment) would then be sent back to the blog, Bridgy detecting and sending them.

At first, I got a cryptic error on Bridgy when trying to send webmentions back to the blog and it appeared in the errorlog as: “ERROR: You need to accept the privacy policy to post a comment.“
After disabling the “comment checkbox” it worked.

Likes and Boosts cannot validate any privacy et al checkboxes, as they’re generated on outside platforms, with their own ToS, etc.
But they should be allowed back, or at least allowed and monitored in a way or another (antispam sometimes catch them as “spam”).

Sincerely
DJM