I strongly agree that's an excellent way to include and moderate comments. It doesn't necessarily fit everyone's goals for hosting comments on their platforms.
It fits mine though, and my zakreviews.com website shows comments from my @zakreviews Mastodon account.
I answered qualified disagree, because first of all comments on most web pages are a bad idea, and second because moderation here sucks. But it's not impossible to create a better-moderated, federated comment system and deploy one judiciously...
Interesting. Many of the disagrees seem to be based on either the opinion that comments shouldn't be used at all, or on issues of the article poster not being able to moderate the comments.
This seems like a different discussion than around whether the Fediverse should be used for post comments.
It would be interesting to see the results of this poll reworded as such:
""Publishing platforms allowing comments should use a Fediverse instance for it that they/the author can moderate."
I'm strongly agree. I think in general comments provide value to content; spam and other bad content is a problem tractable to manual and automated moderation; and most commenters have good intent. And of course, I think ActivityPub is a great way to generate and manage comments.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •I strongly agree that's an excellent way to include and moderate comments. It doesn't necessarily fit everyone's goals for hosting comments on their platforms.
It fits mine though, and my zakreviews.com website shows comments from my @zakreviews Mastodon account.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Interesting. Many of the disagrees seem to be based on either the opinion that comments shouldn't be used at all, or on issues of the article poster not being able to moderate the comments.
This seems like a different discussion than around whether the Fediverse should be used for post comments.
It would be interesting to see the results of this poll reworded as such:
""Publishing platforms allowing comments should use a Fediverse instance for it that they/the author can moderate."
Evan Prodromou
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