You're using an free tier supported by ads, what would you expect?
Either pay the money they ask if it's worth having comments, or build your own system.
I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having worked in the world of e-commerce, there are genuinely good companies run by good people making genuinely good products that no one knows about, and one of the ways they try and get people to know about their products is advertising. In one case, this is a product that replaced something already in your home, it's materially better, and it's materially cheaper in the long term. How do you create an ad for that…
You have a curated directory of actually decent stuff, and you list the item there. Don't wrestle with the pigs.
What do you do with the other two wishes from the genie?
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#213I've been waiting for someone to build a Disqus alternative on ATProto (the protocol behind Bluesky, Blacksky, Skylight, etc.)
Posts could show both under the article (like "normal" comments) and for aggregated discussion on Bluesky / any other app that renders Bluesky posts.
And you'd get "free" moderation (at least for basic stuff) from the Bluesky mod team.
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having worked in the world of e-commerce, there are genuinely good companies run by good people making genuinely good products that no one knows about, and one of the ways they try and get people to know about their products is advertising. In one case, this is a product that replaced something already in your home, it's materially better, and it's materially cheaper in the long term. How do you create an ad for that…
You have a curated directory of actually decent stuff, and you list the item there. Don't wrestle with the pigs.
And how do you get people to view said directory if they've never heard of it?
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#215I was so hopeful for Cactus.chat built on matrix, but like all products built on the matrix protocol, you have to follow their mantra of being unusable and undiscoverable. The main page for cactus chat even quit hosting the JS file and none of the maintainers think that's a problem lol. Still a cool comments product and I still use it on my blog. https://cactus.chat/
Hmmm, wouldn't it just be easier to make a new room for a new blog and just call it directly from the web client end? Not e2ee style to support more clients?
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#216Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#217Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported serv…
> Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported service currently in operation through out the web.
I'm not fully sure about this, an ad network which does that very reliably can probably charge the ad provisioning companies extra due to it being on more high quality sides/locations and pay out extra little due to having "high quality low disturbing" ads.
But with the Google being a quasi monopoly for ad networks on any open platform and most people either blocking all adds or no adds there is just little room for alternatives. I do use uBlock Origin for some custom filters, but I which instead of "on" / "of" there where "on but more like privacy badger" / "on full" / "off" with the first being the default so that users can create an insensitive for better ad handling.
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#218I've been waiting for someone to build a Disqus alternative on ATProto (the protocol behind Bluesky, Blacksky, Skylight, etc.) Posts could show both under the article (like "normal" comments) and for aggregated discussion on Bluesky / any other app that renders Bluesky posts. And you'd get "free" moderation (at least for basic stuff) from the Bluesky mod team.
Proof of concept: the best blog commenting system I’ve seen uses ActivityPub (to integrate with Mastodon). It’s utterly easy to use, and pretty seamless. I don’t know what it’s called or if there’s more than one implementation, but you can see this in action at jwz’s site and a handful of others.
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
Come on. There is a massive difference between an ad that optimistically emphasizes the best aspects of a real product or service and an ad for a fake product or service that will take your money and leave you with essentially nothing.
I think the poster is lamenting the general quality of all advertised products in general. If it's a brand of good quality (Miele, Henry, DeLonghi) it probably does not need to be advertised, as word of mouth and price point is generally enough.
Two of the three names are unknown to me. This word of mouth delivery did nothing to make me interested in any of the three though. I have no idea what any of them actually do. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader as how best to internet search "Henry".
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#220I've been waiting for someone to build a Disqus alternative on ATProto (the protocol behind Bluesky, Blacksky, Skylight, etc.) Posts could show both under the article (like "normal" comments) and for aggregated discussion on Bluesky / any other app that renders Bluesky posts. And you'd get "free" moderation (at least for basic stuff) from the Bluesky mod team.
There was a post on HN a few weeks ago about natalie.sh replacing blog comments with Bluesky threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826164
I was inspired by that and wrote up my experience integrating with my Hugo based blog here: https://brojonat.com/posts/bluesky-hugo-comments/