I agree that having comment sections on blogs can be problematic. Nobody wants to make an account on a random blog site just to make a comment, and you need exp

I agree that having comment sections on blogs can be problematic. Nobody wants to make an account on a random blog site just to make a comment, and you need explicit accounts to stop spam. Comment histories are also nice to have. There's an interesting middle ground in this space called Cactus Comments [0]. They're part of the Matrix ecosystem. The idea is to create a Matrix "room" for every post so that anyone with a Matrix account can comment in that room. Then, at the bottom of the post there's a preview of the most recent messages in the room, along with (optionally) a text box for anonymous comments. Admittedly, setting this up to be self-hosted is pretty involved, especially if you're not already with Matrix. But the Cactus people make it easy to get started with their (free) public servers. [0]: https://cactus.chat/demo/ https://cactus.chat/demo/