after a couple of days of this experiment I recommend this to everyone:
hide the comments and the sidebar in the video view on youtube, it makes the experience much less harmful
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bumped on comment regarding all that suggestive bot spam on yt. it's from 8 months ago and nothing happen but this still does seems like next potential "logical" move for yt
GitHub - splitbrain/meh: Meh... another comment system https://github.com/splitbrain/meh #alternative #integration #OpenSource #comments #mastodon #node.js #website #GitHub #sqlite #static #blog #PHP
GitHubGitHub - splitbrain/meh: Meh... another comment systemMeh... another comment system. Contribute to splitbrain/meh development by creating an account on GitHub.
I'm looking for a new comment system for my #Hugo blog, and I'm not seeing any clearly great options.
I've been using #Commento for #comments on my blog for a few years now, and it's about time to switch comment systems.
Commento has been effectively unmaintained for 4 years (see https://gitlab.com/commento/commento). Their (paid) hosted version has been continuing to work, but I've seen increasing numbers of errors lately, so it's time to move.
I'd really *love* something that could integrate semi-natively with #activitypub so new blog posts could show up in Mastodon and Mastodon replies would show up as comments, *but* I don't want to require a fediverse account for commenters; that rules out most (all?) of the embedded-Mastodon comment options.. After looking through Hugo's somewhat-outdated list of commenting options (https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/), it looks like #Discourse is the only option that even *slightly* fits that, and it's a lot heavier-weight than I really want to run today. Hours-of-maintenance-per-comment should be less than 1, thanks.
Basic requirements:
- Either easy to self-host or has a cheap hosted option.
- Allows anonymous comments plus common external auth options.
- Possible to import comments from Commento, possibly requiring code on my part, but it needs to allow arbitrary names, etc.
- Works with static sites.
- Not a privacy disaster
- If self-hosted, ideally written in something sane -- Go, Rust, etc. *Ideally* it's a single binary that listens to HTTP and stores comments in Postgres.
- Supports Markdown.
Does anyone have anything that they're really happy with?
GitLabCommento / Commento · GitLabCommento is a fast, privacy-focused commenting platform
remember when I asked for a replacement for #disqus and then ranted about how none of the available solutions would also integrate with #mastodon?
Well shit. I did it again and scratched my own itch and barfed out another open source project.
Introducing: Meh..
https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-03/26-meh_another_comment_system
* single install serves as many sites as you want
* can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend)
* imports Disqus
* fetches Mastodon replies as comments
* supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de)
* probably has bugs
#opensource #opensourcesoftware #comments
#News #NaziUSA #YouTube #Comments
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Here's an idea: The U.S. should grant the 6 Territories (Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, & American Samoa) full statehood 1st before trying to acquire new territories from countries that don't want it.
So I am looking for a selfhosted comments feature for my blog (I use Jekyll).
Any suggestions?
I also see some tech blogs doing the web mentions thing: how does that work?
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A couple of years back I wrote a blog post about linking my static blog posts to Mastodon threads so that the threads can serve as blog comments.
I realise I never pinned that post to my profile, and I have since deleted the Mastodon thread, so I'm sharing it again. I'm pinning it this time!
Veronica Writes · Threaded Mastodon CommentsAlready before I set up this website using Hugo, I wanted to integrate Mastodon comments into the posts. I had already come across this implementation by Carl Schwan before, and it seems to work really well.
Integrating it was fairly straightforward, and is already explained in his post. I modified it a bit to remove the dialog box and include the core of those instructions in the comment section preamble. Aside from that, I was happy with the original setup as a starting point.
Statement on the #Zoomposium interview with Prof. #Gerd #Ganteför "The #enigmatic fabric of #reality" - a guest article by Dr. Bernd Stein
However, his #answers in the #interview had also led to #debates in the #comments section of my #science #blog, which critically deals with the #theses from his new book "Das rätselhafte Gewebe der Wirklichkeit". Some comments came from Dr. #Bernd #stein who also wanted to comment on this topic here.
Statement on the #Zoomposium interview with Prof. #Gerd #Ganteför "The #enigmatic fabric of #reality" - a guest article by Dr. Bernd Stein
However, his #answers in the #interview had also led to #debates in the #comments section of my #science #blog, which critically deals with the #theses from his new book "Das rätselhafte Gewebe der Wirklichkeit". Some comments came from Dr. #Bernd #stein who also wanted to comment on this topic here.
Black Magic Design requires my details to download #Davinci #Resolve free version (I love #Kdenlive but it barely works on #macOS (which I'm forced to use)) so I put fake/prank details. #JamesBond is just the first name that I thought of, and is what I usually use as a pseudonym. I reached the character limit for my #Mastodon instance, so check the #comments for a continuation.
TorrentFreak: Disqus is Deleting Pirate Site Communities on Short Notice. “After 15 years or so of relatively plain sailing, comment platform Disqus is cracking down on sites that violate its terms of service. Pirate manga and anime sites have received notifications that Disqus will no longer provide services after copyright infringement came to its attention. With evictions now spreading to […]
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Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to add, update, and remove comments from UFW rules.
https://greenwebpage.com/community/how-to-add-comments-to-ufw-rules/
Greenwebpage Community · How to Add Comments to UFW Rules: 7 Mostly Used ExamplesThis is a comprehensive guide on how to add, update, and remove comments from UFW rules. Learn more in this article.
Mashable: Why are TikTok comments suddenly full of religious messages?. “I wouldn’t describe my TikTok FYP a spiritual journey — it’s mostly food, sports, Bravo stuff, dogs, and weird internet humor. Yet lately, I’ve noticed a surge of religious comments popping up under some of the more viral TikToks on my feed, and they’re quickly rising to the top.”
I'm finally seeing the new kind of spambot showing up at my blog, and it's way worse than the old kinds.
Like, I'm seriously wondering whether I have to turn off comments _except_ from the Federation, which may end up being what saves blog comments.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/03/09/mission-unfortunately-accomplished/
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