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Disqus solved this for a while, but they did various things over the years to push people away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus#Criticism,_privacy,_and_sec
by Kye 2y ago
Disqus solved this for a while, but they did various things over the years to push people away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus#Criticism,_privacy,_and_security_concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus#Criticism,_privacy,_and...
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22disqus%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22disqus%22
Facebook offered a commenting system a lot of sites used, but it also lost trust and reach with its scandals.
- tlavoie 2y agoThere are similar-ish tools such as Isso. Self-hosted, no snooping, stored on SQLite. https://isso-comments.de/ https://isso-comments.de/
- Groxx 2y agoI'm also seeing a moderate number use javascript to pull activitypub replies, as those APIs are (generally) public and GET-friendly. And don't have the various spam-rolls that other free options add.