Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn’t even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.
For me, it’d be the following:
- Meetup
- Tiktok
I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I’m not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.
I’ll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I’d be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.
Disqus. Would be great to add federated comments to any news, blog or static site.
There’s already a way to do this using Mastodon and a bit of Javascript. I use that on my flashlight review website and also link the comments to [email protected].
It’s not as slick a UX as Disqus of course, and it would be cool if somebody made that.
It’s hacky and not something a professional site would use. Cannot moderate comments for example.
I certainly can moderate comments; I am the admin of the Mastodon server in question.
What wouldn’t work so well is to host comments on someone else’s Mastodon server, so it’s not a good fit for a low-tech/low-overhead site. There’s definitely a space for something with a lower barrier to entry, but I don’t think it fits well with the nonprofit, community-oriented approach to servers running most of the fediverse. Those users would be best served by a commercial subscription service.
I remember last time I seen something like this it ended up just being full of nazis jerking each other off. Granted it was a pretty neoliberal app so that might have had a lot to do with it, but still, giving every website a news comment section isn’t really that great of an idea in retrospect.