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Scott Laird

I'm looking for a new comment system for my #Hugo blog, and I'm not seeing any clearly great options.

I've been using #Commento for #comments on my blog for a few years now, and it's about time to switch comment systems.

Commento has been effectively unmaintained for 4 years (see gitlab.com/commento/commento). Their (paid) hosted version has been continuing to work, but I've seen increasing numbers of errors lately, so it's time to move.

I'd really *love* something that could integrate semi-natively with #activitypub so new blog posts could show up in Mastodon and Mastodon replies would show up as comments, *but* I don't want to require a fediverse account for commenters; that rules out most (all?) of the embedded-Mastodon comment options.. After looking through Hugo's somewhat-outdated list of commenting options (gohugo.io/content-management/c), it looks like #Discourse is the only option that even *slightly* fits that, and it's a lot heavier-weight than I really want to run today. Hours-of-maintenance-per-comment should be less than 1, thanks.

Basic requirements:

- Either easy to self-host or has a cheap hosted option.
- Allows anonymous comments plus common external auth options.
- Possible to import comments from Commento, possibly requiring code on my part, but it needs to allow arbitrary names, etc.
- Works with static sites.
- Not a privacy disaster
- If self-hosted, ideally written in something sane -- Go, Rust, etc. *Ideally* it's a single binary that listens to HTTP and stores comments in Postgres.
- Supports Markdown.

Does anyone have anything that they're really happy with?

GitLabCommento / Commento · GitLabCommento is a fast, privacy-focused commenting platform
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Joseph Lim :mastodon:

@ProPublica_rss #BigMoneyPolitics
"Voters hv been hit w a barrage of attack ads fr special interest groups, & record-setting sums of money have been spent to sway residents.. “tt piece of #legislation made things worse, Our #public #discourse is basically who can inflame things in the most clever way w some terrible TV ad that’s probably not even true.” “this spending has the potential to drown out speech rights for all citizens, narrow debate,.. & increase the risk of #systemic #corruption.”" 👎

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Canadian Association For Food Studies

Cultivating Community How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in the Murray–Darling Basin

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#Toronto #Food #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025

Eventbrite2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards CeremonyJoin us for an unforgettable evening of celebration and social connection at one of Toronto's newest hot spots, And/Ore.
#Adaptation#Community#Dams
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icaria36 🎶

This is my Social Music Network website bootstrapping log:

the.socialmusic.network/t/boot

Seven days from a Discourse vanilla installation to a fully featured community space. I'm very happy I started it spontaneously. I think it can be useful to anyone planning to create a new Discourse-based forum. I know I will get back to it the next time I bootstrap one.

Social Music Network · Bootstrapping The Social Music Network(A timeline goes here.) I have just purchased a virtual server on Hetzner (2 CPUs, 4Gb, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). Installed Discourse. Opened registration. Starting to invite early adopters, knowing that nothing has been done yet. Next: basic review to the Discourse settings, draft a welcome message explaining the basic idea of this project, and create a skeleton of categories. Post a first version of the code of conduct. If you are reading this, WELCOME! 🎉 If you have any questions or want to ...
#Discourse#TheSocialMusicNetwork
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icaria36 🎶

@icaria36@the.socialmusic.network This is a test reply.

Also a note that we are looking for more ideas to federate Social Music Network topics on the.socialmusic.network/t/fede

Also testing with tags below, to check whether they render on the forum:

Social Music Network · Federating The Social Music NetworkDiscourse, the software that powers this forum, has an ActivityPub plugin, and we have it enabled here already. This means that we can federate specific categories and tags of this forum with other forums. But (to me) more interestingly, we can federate with categories and tags of other ActivityPub-enabled forums (Discourse and NodeBB so far, and maybe more than forums, I’m still learning). And this means that posts and replies with the federated category/forum will be replicated in both forum...
#TheSocialMusicNetwork#Discourse#ActivityPub
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Mike Kuketz 🛡

Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, eure Fragen freuen mich sehr! Leider fehlt mir die Zeit, sie zu beantworten. Schaut doch gerne im Forum vorbei, dort gibt es viele engagierte und kompetente Menschen, die euch weiterhelfen können. 😊👇

🔗 kuketz-forum.de/

Kuketz IT-Security Forum • IT-Sicherheit | DatenschutzKuketz IT-Security Forum • IT-Sicherheit | DatenschutzIT-Security Forum: Eine Plattform für Menschen, die sich kritisch mit den Themen IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz(recht) befassen möchten.
#forum#hilfe#support
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C.

Reposting this from my back catalogue:

> Trying to understand something isn't validating it.
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> Understanding something isn't endorsing it.
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> Explaining something isn't justifying it.
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> Questioning something isn't attacking it.
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> Disapproving of something is not approving its opposite.
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> And agreeing with something isn't blind, unquestioning reverence to it.

#discourse#discussion#conversation
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icaria36 🎶

This weekend I want to install #LibreTranslate by @argosopentech in our server, next to #Discourse Translator by @Discourse and the Multilingual Plugin by Pavilion (which --small world-- I helped design in my professional role years ago).

I'm quite intimidated because I haven't touched LibreTranslate ever and I haven't found a guide connecting these pieces.

But social music lovers deserve a multilingual space, so here we go. Links welcome!

the.socialmusic.network/t/a-mu

Social Music Network · A multilingual communityI have been thinking… and I believe we should go for the full package: enable automatic translation and let everyone post in their preferred language anywhere (except topics or areas specifically designated for a specific language). In theory, this is doable thanks to several giant’s shoulders: Interface language Discourse already allows user to select the language of the interface. We just have to enable this setting. Multilingual plugin The Multilingual plugin allows to identify the language...
#TheSocialMusicNetwork
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blinry

You know how the #Discourse forum software hijacks your Ctrl+F and opens this dialog in the corner?

I was always annoyed by that! But today, I learned that you can press Ctrl+F twice, and it will go back to your browser's search!

Note, however, that not all posts of that thread might be loaded until you've scrolled to them, so in hindsight, I understand why they defaulted to this behavior…

A popup that allows you to search "in this topic".
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Samuel Lison :lagr_elephant:

From my reading about social media platforms growing exponentially, there comes a point where growing a #moderation team is essential. This problem is less common with the #Fediverse with self-hosted small instances. But what about the larger instances? Have any #devs thought about implementing features such as is available in #Discourse. A #trust based moderation system as a community grows? Is that even a feasible thing to do?

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Julius Zukowski-Krebs

Hello Fediverse! Feels good to be back! With this account I hope to make my small contributions in #romance #horrorliterature research and the #discourse around #horror, #fear, the #uncanny and #affect in general, but also to share some thoughts on the current political and philosophical discourse concerning #affecttheory #psychoanalysis #existentialism and #cosmotechnics

Writing primarily in ENG and GER but also in RU, IT, PT, ESP and maybe even FR!

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⏚ Sabrena ⏚

Malgré que je sois newbie , je suis passée de modératrice à admin sur le #forum #discourse d'une asso , il y a une maj critique a faire dessus, j'ai donc contacté le geek qui l a installé et le gérait pour apprendre à faire et me suis fait envoyer bouler. Des pistes pour une reprise en main totale d'un forum maj comprises + vers qui pourrais je me tourner pour détecter les backdoor que cette personne a créé. le repouet aide à se libérer des relous

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Philo Sophies

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. med. #Cornelius #Borck: "A picture history of #consciousness"

This great "#power of #images" and the accompanying change in #scientific #discourse were reason enough for us to get to the bottom of this #phenomenon in the #history of #science in a conversation with Professor Borck. Therefore, here is the questionnaire for the interview.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

or: youtu.be/qhY9XNpQQzo

Photo of Prof. Dr. med. Cornelius Borck
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