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So, to address the elephant in the room... Why does commenting on a blog post need any kind of account? Why not have fields for "name" and "comment body" and use capcha and/or manual approval to guard against spam?
Like, why does everything need to be tied to an account nowadays?
Why does commenting on a blog post need any kind of account?
Reply notifications, commenting history.
capcha
I don't know about you, but I hate those, and wouldn't want people to have to go through that, as I wouldn't want to have to go through that.
manual approval
That's a lot more work, and it delays the conversation when replying to another visitor.
My guess would be trolls and/or bullying
I'm pretty sure it does, maybe it needs to be enabled? I think I've seen ghost blogs with fedi comments already.
I would love to be wrong indeed. Would you have some links ? When I asked on the Ghost subreddit, multiple people said Ghost v6 doesn't do Fediverse commenting.
I don't remember them unfortunately, maybe they had some kind of plugin like yours? I was certain that Ghost already has it, but maybe I'm wrong.
It's still fairly new, maybe they just haven't gotten around to it yet? I've been wondering the same myself.
They've been working on this for a year and a half.
They've been working on it a lot longer than that but it's still in Beta