Decided to join mastodon, but pessimistic about it longer term: https://www.jefftk.com/p/thinking-about-mastodon
@city getting comments set up on a new platform is pretty easy for me because the cross-posting is manual. Though if I like Mastodon then at some point I'm going to want to pull replies back down to display on jefftk.com, which I expect will be harder
@city now comments are actually integrated
ex: https://www.jefftk.com/p/thinking-about-mastodon#:~:text=city
code change: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/commit/318efd248c2c8dbb02844cf031a47fcd4ce3a5e1
@jefftk your concern about spam is ironic, because the primary way we solved email spam was to move a huge amount of the email traffic to a handful of centralized hosts. (Gmail and exchange.)
@jefftk wow you got mastodon comments up and running fast. I'm also skeptically curious about activitypub as an alternative to central platform ownership