<story><title>Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse</title><url>https://write.as/matt/bringing-blogging-to-the-fediverse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chriswarbo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d really like to see distributed comments across self-hosted sites and blogs, but I haven&amp;#x27;t come across a decent way to prevent spam.&lt;p&gt;I used to embed Disqus in my site, but wasn&amp;#x27;t really happy with its centralised nature (plus it was &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; slower and bloated than anything else I had; generally a few KB of static HTML with &amp;quot;motherfucking-website&amp;quot; aesthetics).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KajMagnus</author><text>Does that mean you didn&amp;#x27;t find Disqus to be spammy? Maybe varies from blog to blog? I&amp;#x27;ve seen blogs with maybe 20 Disqus spam comments and 2 real comments, ... I flagged the spammy ones (which were like: &amp;quot;Love this blog post, it helped me so much. Btw here&amp;#x27;s my site: ...&amp;quot; — i.e. copy-paste generic &lt;i&gt;Thanks&lt;/i&gt; + a spam link), nothing happened (Disqus didn&amp;#x27;t delete them). And the spammers have many accounts and have upvoted their comments,  so spam comments were the topmost ones.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse</title><url>https://write.as/matt/bringing-blogging-to-the-fediverse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chriswarbo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d really like to see distributed comments across self-hosted sites and blogs, but I haven&amp;#x27;t come across a decent way to prevent spam.&lt;p&gt;I used to embed Disqus in my site, but wasn&amp;#x27;t really happy with its centralised nature (plus it was &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; slower and bloated than anything else I had; generally a few KB of static HTML with &amp;quot;motherfucking-website&amp;quot; aesthetics).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harlanji</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been messing with RSS again... almost a decade ago I implemented activitystrea.ms while it was still RSS based (now JSON) (still on my GitHub).&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of clients subscribing to feeds, and syndicating comments with parent URIs, into an aggregated view; and there being discovery services, all convention, like XMPP. This is all very 1998 like LiveJournal.</text></comment>