Nearly all blogs require you to authenticate with some kind of account. The alternative is spam city. RSS: There's nothing wrong with it. But if you object to

Nearly all blogs require you to authenticate with some kind of account. The alternative is spam city. RSS: There's nothing wrong with it. But if you object to Disqus centralising "your" users, you should equally object to eg Google Reader centralising them. It's exactly the same principle. You lose "control", to the benefit of the user.