I’ve been planning to add comments to my blog for a long time. For the longest time now, I’ve just been posting to the void, not knowing if I missed anyone.
I didn’t like Disqus and storing comments in GitHub issues didn’t make sense to me. However, a recent wave of Hackernews articles about online discussions and a post about using Mastodon for comments have inspired me to explore that approach. I like the idea of using a social media platform as a comments section because it feels like a place where discussions would organically take place.
Requiring a Mastodon account to comment is both a positive and negative point in my opinion. On one hand, it introduces friction in commenting, reducing engagement. On the other, it might also serve as a preliminary form of moderation because that’s a manual job I don’t feel like undertaking.
Now Dear Reader,
I propose to you a call to action: If this anything on this blog has caught your interest, please leave a comment and share it if you can.
Its would be nice to know that I’m not just talking to the void.