Almost none of the blogs I read these days provide a comment function. And I understand why someone wouldn't want to spend their energy on fighting bots or abrasive comments... but man, does it make me miss the old internet.
@anderseknert it's funny, I remember back in the day YouTube comments used to be considered the worst of the internet, but these days they are pretty positive and polite, and they give me a lot of that "old internet" feeling of comments on blogs
@LGUG2Z @anderseknert Hosting a dynamic website that can support commenting is relatively expensive. With static blogs you can use Disqus but there are privacy questions. I am partial to the idea of integrating Mastodon federation as a commenting system
e.g. https://maho.dev/2024/02/a-guide-to-implementing-activitypub-in-a-static-site-or-any-website-part-4/
cc @blog / @mapache
@suzannealdrich @LGUG2Z @anderseknert @blog @mapache You may be interested in the Distributed Press Social Inbox. You add a bit of metadata to your static site and have a static Actor JSON file point to the inbox for getting replies. Then can pull replies using JS or during site rebuild. With moderation features and a blocklist against the worst instances built in. https://docs.distributed.press/social-inbox/
