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I'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.

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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/

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.

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