What's with "Discuss on Mastodon"?

dpecos/mastodon-comments

Webcomponent that embeds a Mastodon's toot conversation in a HTML page

Mastodon - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

Expectations and preferences around community contributions/interactions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36552

There is a long-running pattern of conversations on issues/PRs around some features getting quite heated and sometimes turning into personal insults, venting frustrations, borderline conspiracy acc...

Mastodon Exit Interview

I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media.

Mastodon is for the people

How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.

Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments | The Mozilla Blog

To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com

Enable Mastodon Apps Plugin — WordPress.com

Despite Mastodon implying that you would use this plugin for engaging on Mastodon (when you have enabled it for that, see below), the plugin is useful when installed on a plain WordPress.

Comment Sections Are Essential for News Sites. We’re Making Changes to Improve Ours.

While many other news organizations have abolished their comment sections, we are taking steps to make ours better.

Comments Are Dead, Long Live Comments - AVC

Yet another mainstream media site took down comments this week. In the post explaining the move, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher explained that “as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making onsite comments less and less used and less and less useful.” […]

FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.

Research - Disqus

Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web.

blogs.social — Discover the open web

Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.

atproto-comments

Renders an AT Protocol (Bluesky) thread as a comment section. Supports SSR, sign-in, replies, and live updates.

A Brief History of the End of the Comments

For years, comment boxes have been a staple of the online experience. Now many media companies are giving up on them.