@beko.famkos.net You're not wrong, and I'm sure there are ways to work around the official lack of support. Like if I stripped the e-content class from the div that contains my post, I could manually code a conforming webmention "like" (but then I'd also need to manually add the e-content div to every normal post). I'm not sure if there's a way to specify a different template for a specific category, but if that is possible, that'd help a lot – then I could have the flexibility to manually code webmentions in a "Responses" category, while not causing extra friction for myself making normal posts. Although this would still be more work than just leaving a comment when I'm tempted to leave a like.

The other thing I considered was having a "Responses" folder on my static site, with manually coded responses that I'd then use Telegram or something to send. I think that would work technically, it's just it'd be such a laborious process that I don't think I'd ever bother. Responses are also the kind of content that I think would be better placed on a blog.

I believe you're right that I could switch out the default endpoint for Webmention.io (and maybe integrate Brid.gy), and then receive likes as well, but I feel like that might introduce bugs I lack the expertise to fix, and I'd also probably lose the comments made before the switchover. Really I'd prefer it if the platform itself could at least receive and find some way to show me webmention "likes", even if they don't want neat "like" buttons on their site.