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I disagree. I think ATProtocol found a pretty good balance for de/centralization. Yes most people are on Bluesky PDSs but the data is easy to backup and move and Mastodon does not improve on that afaik.
If BlueSky is the only aggregator that people are subscribing to, what's the point of being able to 'move' your PDS?
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My biggest turnoff has been the fact that you don't own your own data/account and are beholden to whichever dictator(s) run the instance you started out on. You can migrate, but that entire process is just convoluted. I should be able to create an account with my own keys and use them anywhere. Servers can choose to use and share allowlists or blocklists. Each instance being its own little world kills discovery and a…
I’m not 100% sure but I think you essentially described how Nostr works in your first paragraph.
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If BlueSky is the only aggregator that people are subscribing to, what's the point of being able to 'move' your PDS?
It is so easy and cheap to run your own aggregator that people run their own. If Bluesky goes down it'd be trivial to use something else.
If you are rendering your blog or website with a static site generator, you could also consider importing comments as content files into your website source and then rendering them as part of the build. The full workflow would look like this: 1. Accept comments via email, CGI scripts, server-side program or by any other means that suits you. A simple hack that requires no server-side scripting: if you run your own we…
I do something kind of similar using Github Discussions for my comments: https://blog.tombert.com/ I didn't build it myself, I use Giscus, but it seems to work fine. Tough to say, though, since no one comments on my blog :)
I just tried to leave a comment on the kids Logseq page. I'm on mobile, don't have access to my GitHub credentials to log in. I'm also extraordinarily wary of exposing credentials to such a critical service for the benefit of leaving a comment on a blog. If you have an actual goal of fostering comments, perhaps consider lowering the bar of entry.