Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus

Re:Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-fre... by mxuribe on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:26PM (#14204461)

Add in indieweb functionality to the codebase, such as microformats stuff, and I think this could really catch on. See https://indieweb.org/comments#How_to_markup

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Re:Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-fre... by bshimmin on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:01PM (#14205383)

I have literally never heard of IndieWeb. Is this something important I should have heard of?

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Re:Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-fre... by zeveb on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:21PM (#14206611)

I've mentioned it a few times; I think it's pretty important because it has a bunch of ideas which are our last best hope to prevent the centralisation of the Internet.

Some of their proposals, taken together, could enable people to emulate what Facebook offers, from their own servers.

I'm not 100% onboard with all their ideas, and a few just seem wrong, but all in all I think that they're exciting and important.

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Re:Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-fre... by losteric on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:10PM (#14205478)

I've been hearing murmurs about it for a while now, I think it's a great idea but thus far it's lacked sufficient business buy-in to gain traction.

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Re:Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-fre... by reitanqild on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:36PM (#14205713)

Just read and it IMO doesn't seem to need business buy-in, just people who want to have their own domain, write stuff and post it.

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Re:Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-fre... by adtac on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:30PM (#14206194)

Thanks, I'll look into it.

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