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Mastodon is great, but the "pick a server" step is a pretty hard filter for most users, who just want to sign up for something.
You'd also get to benefit automatically from Bluesky's blocking/moderation tools.
I can't think of something more hostile than requiring an account on a 3rd party, totally unrelated, platform to post a comment on a blog. I'll literally take ads and tracking over it.
You can run your own server, on your own hardware, make your own account, own every step of the stack, and can comment on there.
It's not just 3rd-party login, it's YOUR-party login.
I can't think of something more hostile than requiring an account on a 3rd party, totally unrelated, platform to post a comment on a blog. I'll literally take ads and tracking over it.
To your point, though, I don't expect anyone without an account already to post, but my target audience largely already has such accounts.
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Ultimately it comes down to: you must trust your instance admin. (Just like you must trust Facebook and X and Tiktok and whomever else). As a result, maybe take private conversations somewhere safer, like Signal or a pgp conversation. If you don't trust your instance admin, why did you sign up with your instance?
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What weird fake information you're posting. Yes, administrators of fediverse servers can read your personal correspondence -- same as Facebook, X, and other social media sites that don't offer federation (unless you opt into some limited e2ee option). But I, as a fediverse admin, have no ability to read (private) correspondence between two others who don't use my instance. Ultimately it comes down to: you must trust…
Probably because you told them it was a cool OSS twitter alternative and not something that takes all of social media's moderation and privacy and content problems and multiplies them by the number of instances you join without any of the legal protections associated with being able to file civil or criminal complaints against an identifiable entity answerable to the laws of your country.
https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Jan/adding-fediverse-comme...
https://andreasthinks.me/posts/quarto_comments/open-social.h...