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I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Re: I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Post by soulofmischief »

tolerance wrote: post #16
soulofmischief wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Noster is cool, I've experimented with it but it doesn't solve all of my problems and has some problems of its own, such as spam. Most importantly, it's not really P2P, despite being decentralized.

I have also explored other P2P approaches and built prototype social networks. I prefer a more P2P approach, I think it's more scalable, but it's complicated because IP privacy by default is important in large social networks. I'm still searching for the right solution. I think the advances in LLMs are going to help do a much better job at solving the moderation problem in social networks, and so I am experimenting with that in my off time.

Re: I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Post by MarcelOlsz »

f311a wrote: post #21
JCattheATM wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to share a link or some more info?

How it works: * CF worker on a subdomain that handles POST requests. Basically, a JS function that handles incoming requests. * It stores comments in CF KV and sends me a copy to telegram * All I need to do is copy it to Markdown (can be automated, but I manually approve the comments in case of spam) * In Markdown, I'm using frontmatter to store arbitrary JSON data * To avoid automated spam, I have a few tricks: do n…

>Everything, including hosting and workers, costs me zero.

Your setup sounds cool. Do you host it on a home lab or something?

Re: I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Post by jasoneckert »

This is great!

I did something similar, but with GitHub Discussions because my blog is hosted on GitHub Pages and composited with Hugo, and I wanted all components to run as close as possible to one another: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/github-discussions-blog...

Re: I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Post by jeffhwang »

elsjaako wrote: post #24
guelo wrote: post #10

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Mastodon had their shot and people found it too confusing.

I know I shouldn't react this way, but this view that Mastodon can only be successful if it's the largest platform out there always gets under my skin. There are about a million active users of the fediverse, and I know plenty of us find it nice right now. Active users are measured in different ways by different platforms, so if we compare registered users, fedi has 12.5M compared to 42M for Bluesky. So it's approxim…

It's probably user error on my part. But as a somewhat technical user, I've been locked out of Mastodon account for months for no discernible reason. I had my standard first name and last name and I'm on one of the biggest Mastodon servers (mastodon.social).

I suppose I could just create a brand new account or move to another server but it hasn't seemed worth the effort so far

Re: I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Post by lagniappe »

tolerance wrote: post #16
soulofmischief wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does Nostr have many users these days?

Re: I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Post by JCattheATM »

f311a wrote: post #21
JCattheATM wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to share a link or some more info?

How it works: * CF worker on a subdomain that handles POST requests. Basically, a JS function that handles incoming requests. * It stores comments in CF KV and sends me a copy to telegram * All I need to do is copy it to Markdown (can be automated, but I manually approve the comments in case of spam) * In Markdown, I'm using frontmatter to store arbitrary JSON data * To avoid automated spam, I have a few tricks: do n…

Interesting, thanks!

Re: I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

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Post by f311a »

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #33
f311a wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How it works: * CF worker on a subdomain that handles POST requests. Basically, a JS function that handles incoming requests. * It stores comments in CF KV and sends me a copy to telegram * All I need to do is copy it to Markdown (can be automated, but I manually approve the comments in case of spam) * In Markdown, I'm using frontmatter to store arbitrary JSON data * To avoid automated spam, I have a few tricks: do n…

>Everything, including hosting and workers, costs me zero. Your setup sounds cool. Do you host it on a home lab or something?

Just a free plan on Cloudflare (CF in the comment above also means CloudFlare). Zero maintenance.

I push to Github and CF deploys static pages to CDN.

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